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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Haiti -- History -- Revolution -- 1791-1804

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste

 Collection — Box BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16481
Content Description

This collection contains the 1798 bill of sale for an eight year old Creole boy named Jean Baptiste from Port-au-Prince on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). It was written by the Bordeaux-born merchant Arnaud André Robertjot Lartigue (1740-1826) to a " Monsieur Grandidier". It is a single sheet of paper consisting of eleven lines of french detailing the transaction of enslavement including the name and age of the boy and the price of sale of a hundred livre.

Dates: 1798-03-03

Brig Milford of Baltimore ship passport

 Item — Box BW 19, Folder: ViU-2020-0051-001
Identifier: MSS 16477
Content Description This collection contains a ship passport issued to the brig "Milford" of Baltimore, authorizing the ship to load its cargo at Port Republican, Santo Domingo. It was issued under the authority of Toussaint Louverture as the Général en chef de l' Armeé de San-Domingue, a position in which he had recently been confirmed by the newly-installed First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte. This document gives permission for the six-gun brig Milford of Baltimore, under Captain Littleton Waters, to load her...
Dates: 1800 January 23