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Sales of twenty four negroes
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Publication/Creation:
- Antigua: 1765-11-25
Creators and Contributors:
- Willock, Alexander (creator)
Description:
- Physical Description:
- 1 p.
- Abstract:
- The returning Sally's first port of call on entering the Caribbean was Barbados. The Browns had posted several letters to the island offering Hopkins advice on where he might most profitably sell the enslaved Africans in his hold, but none of the letters seems to have reached him. Hopkins proceeded to Antigua where he sold what remained of his cargo. Most of the surviving captives were desperately ill and fetched very low prices at auction, as this undated document, recording the sale of twenty-four Africans off the Sally, confirms. Alexander Willock, the Antiguan merchant who handled the sale, later wrote to the Browns apologizing for the low prices.
- Call Number:
- BFBR 680-8-11/25/65 (JCB Manuscript ID)
Genre(s)
- sales records