Ship's cargo invoices (two copies) of merchandise on the voyage of the Brig Dauphin
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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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All values in "Barrs.Group of related invoices and prices pertaining to a sizable transaction of merchandize destined for the British slave-trade outpost on Bunce Island. Strategically situated in an estuary forming a natural harbor that marked the navigable limit for ocean-going ships coming up the Sierra Leone River, Bunce Island was one of the major centers for the 18th-century British slave trade on the west coast of Africa. These invoices list not only a vast assortment of merchandize to be exchanged with slave traders, they also list items used for the incarceration of captured slaves. The account of merchandise at Sierra Leona is noted as follows, "N.B. The foregoing merc all bought in London--Memorandum of Sundry Merchdse. on board the Dauphin, bot. in France.
Invoices
1789 01 07
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Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition CollectionRecord Contributed By
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public LibraryRecord Harvested From
The New York Public LibraryKeywords
- Africa
- African Americans
- Blacks
- Cargo
- Colonies
- Commerce
- Enslaved People
- Great Britain
- History
- Invoices
- Ship's Papers
- Ships
- Sierra Leone
- Slave Trade
- Slaver
- Slavery
- To 1896