DU TERTRE (Jean-Baptiste).
Of the Slaves of the Antilles of America.
Paris : Thomas Jolly, 1667-1671. - In-4, garnet half-calf, smooth spine decorated, speckled edges (modern binding).
Treaty VIII dedicated to the slaves of America, extracted from the "Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les françois" by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, published between 1667 and 1671. This work is considered to be "the first of all the sources of the history of the Antilles" (Dampierre, 124-125).
This treatise corresponds to pages 483 to 539, i.e. the end of the second part of the work. It is divided into two chapters; the first, of only 10 pages, deals with the wild slaves, "Arouagues" and Brazilians, and the second, from page 493 to the end, concerns the black slaves: the ways of buying them, their mood, their conversion to the Catholic religion, marriage, the "shameful birth of Mulastres", the huts, etc.
Heavy wetness, wormholes.
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