SLAVERY. Louis-Narcisse BAUDRY DES LOZIèRES... - Lot 23 - Rossini

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SLAVERY. Louis-Narcisse BAUDRY DES LOZIèRES... - Lot 23 - Rossini
SLAVERY. Louis-Narcisse BAUDRY DES LOZIèRES (1751-1841) colonist in Saint-Domingue and Louisiana, historiographer of the Navy and the Colonies, honorary marshal of camp. P.A.S. (4 times), Port-au-Prince May-October 1777; 1 1/4 pages in-fol. (wetnesses and small lacks at one edge, restorations). Lease of slaves, granted by Jean-François Motet de Fontbelle. May 10, 1777. Contract for the lease of 12 slaves, with details of their first names, ethnicity and age, including 7 "made in the country": Bastien, of Mandingo nation, about 22 years old, Dominique, of Malimbe nation, about 23 years old, Victoire, of Mayombe nation, about 18 years old, etc., estimated at 2500 livres per head, the others of various nations coming from "the cargo of the ship Jeanne Victoire de Bordeaux", estimated at 1850 livres per head. Baudry, the lessee, undertakes to pay the lessor 300 livres per year for each of the first seven slaves, and "only one hundred livres this first year of the lease for each head of the last five negroes, André, Philippe, Thomas, Bertrand and Antoine, who are not yet in the country", and then 200. This lease is completed by three codicils, on June 29, July 13 and October 5, for 11 new "negres et negresses"... A l.a.s. from Borie-Labarthe is attached. from Borie-Labarthe, at Cape Town, August 16, 1778, to his brother, a lawyer in Toulouse (3 p. in-4, adr.), on his arrival in Saint-Domingue: "The whites exercise a rigorous despotism over the negroes, without which one would be degraded at every moment, one trades them as one trades oxen in our country, with the difference that one sells each negro when they are beautiful for 2000ll to 3000ll..." etc.
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