2. [Antilles / Guadeloupe / Slavery]. Composite collection of memoirs. Basse-Terre, imprimerie de la République, 1804-1805. In-4, blond basane, smooth spine decorated.
These memoirs testify to the harshness of the legal harassments of landowners in the colonies, mostly in claim of ownership of black slaves. Edifying details on the "elite blacks", the transfers of slaves from one plantation to another, the name and price of some "negroes", slavery under the Consulate and the Empire:
Mémoire pour la veuve du Général Dugommier (Basse-Terre, 40 p.). Jacques François Coquille dit Dugommier, born in 1738 in Trois-Rivières in Guadeloupe died in 1794 during the battle of Sierra Negra.
Précis for the widow of General Dugommier (16 p., one worm bite).
Memorandum for Dame Charlotte Agnès Ferret [et al] (Trois-Rivières, 51 p.).
Reply for Sieurs Duhamel, Nicole et al (22 p.).
Mémoire pour le sieur Nortin [et consorts] (Point-à-Pitre, 84 p.).
Reply of the heirs Caillou (12 p.)
Memorandum for the widow and children of General Dugommier (Basse-Terre, 51 p.).
Précis of the beneficiary heirs of General Dugommier (14 p. and 2 f.).
Mémoire pour la dame Lamorinière [et consorts] (Point-à-Pitre, 44 p.).
Reply for the lady widow Bory (20 p.).
Memorandum for the lady Joséphine Neau (Basse-Terre, 53 p.).
Reply for the lady Joséphine Neau (34 p.)
Memoir for Mr. Giraud-Charbonière Dorzon (Capesterre, 40 p.)
Binding rubbed with small tears, one leaf shuffling, some browned leaves, other minor defects.
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