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Caltilda Downes: Barbados Passport

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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Text
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Passports
Created Date:
1700 1900
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Miscellaneous American Letters and Papers

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Barbados
  3. History
  4. Passports
  5. Social Conditions
  6. West Indies

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Caltilda Downes: Barbados Passport interior Le Marquis de Champigny Gouverneur et Lieutenant General Pour… Extrait des Registres des Greffes de L'amiraute Generalle de france… Coleridge, William Hart, Bishop of Barbados. The manuscript of the Bishop's first charge to the clery of Barbados. Original manuscript extensively corrected in both ink and pencil. A wide ranging discourse on birth, death, internment, marriage, education, schools, Sunday schools, psalmody, the state of the Negro, Codrington College, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, etc. 1830? Approx. 9000 words. 19 pp., 23 cm. Release of two sugar plantations in ChristChurch by William Reece to King William IV and various Island Commissioners for one year at 3000 plus interest at 4%. (This 4% in export was the bane of the island plantation owners.) The plantations were Pilgrim Place and Gibbons. 12 pp., elephant folio, vellum. Includes 6 pp. Slave Schedules for the two plantations, also 7 pp folio affidavit by Mayor of London and clerk, signed. The release is signed by Reece and several witnesses. The land involved was 360 acres. 1836 and 1843. On folio shelves in box 25. Barbados, Jan. 1825-Dec. 1841. Codex The Conveyances from Sr John Bendyshe and Dame Martha his wife to Mr. John West and William Smith To severall [?] of Barbadoes Lands. 1675. (docket title) Ellys A. Stephens, Esqr. to Stephen Walcott Esqr. } Lease of a plantation in the Island of Barbadoes. [and] Miss Elizth. Walcott to Ellys A. Stephen Esq. } Surrender. (docket title) The Revd. Richd. Smith and Wife to Messrs. Gibbs and Bright. } Mortgage of a moiety of a plantation in the Island of Barbadoes for securing £2223.17.7 and future advances not exceeding £3000 and Interest. (docket title) The turn-out of most Barbadians Rivetts Pond Bottom, Bridgetown, Barbadoes Emancipation in the West Indies A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica in the year 1837 Negro quarters, Bridgetown A Barbados road. ; Barbados landscape Report of a committee appointed to inquire into the actual condition of the slaves in this Island.... Barbadian porters loading hogsheads of sugar always take turns riding back to the warehouse Gathering sea eggs, Barbados. ; The wind-swept Mahogany trees, Barbados Departure of labourers from Barbados for the Panama Canal Cactus plants, Barbados Barbadoes. " The street opens into a large public square called Trafalgar."
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