A41. SLAVE TRADE. 9 L.S. by the ministers of the Navy and th - Lot 41

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A41. SLAVE TRADE. 9 L.S. by the ministers of the Navy and th - Lot 41
A41. SLAVE TRADE. 9 L.S. by the ministers of the Navy and the Colonies Baron PORTALIS (2) and the Marquis de CLERMONT-TONNERRE (7), 1821 and 1823, to Conseiller d'État Faure; 1 or 2 folio pages each on the letterhead of the Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies. Letters accompanying the dispatch of documents (not attached) concerning proceedings against ships suspected of engaging in the slave trade: "the bombarde la Marie of Marseille, accused of having landed 64 blacks in 1818 in the territory of Cayenne," the Félix of Le Havre which "is said to have taken from the African coast and landed in Guadeloupe 17 blacks," the Silence which was to go from Africa to Brazil, the Caroline of Martinique seized at Cape Mesurado "with a cargo of blacks," etc. Two documents (one torn) concerning the shipment of coffee from Isle Bourbon (1819-1820) are attached.
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