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Slave trade

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Michel Bégon papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1756
Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence, reports, journals, lists, pamphlets and broadsides, and other papers relating to Michel Bégon and French colonial administration in the Caribbean, French maritime commerce, foreign relations, domestic economic matters, and botany in the 17th century.

Dates: circa 1651-1718

Bishop family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 839
Abstract:

Financial and legal papers of the Bishop family of Connecticut. The largest part of the papers consists of deeds for properties in New Haven, East Haven, Fair Haven, Branford, Hamden and Guilford, Connecticut. Also included are manifests for slaves shipped from New Haven to Savannah, Charleston and Norfolk (1822-1824). The major figures are Elias Bradley Bishop of New Haven and Jonathan Bishop Sr. and Jr. of Guilford.

Dates: 1793-1883

Elizabeth Donnan papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 184
Abstract:

Manuscripts and typewritten copies of newspaper articles, ships' logs and letterbooks in the Library of Congress relating to the slave trade after 1806, especially during the years 1810-1811, 1816-1821 and 1860-1863. These were collected but not used in connection with her Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade, published 1930-1934.

Dates: 1806-1863