ANTIGUA - EARLY INGOING MAIL FROM ABSENTEE PLANTATION OWNER ...

Hammer

£500

ANTIGUA - EARLY INGOING MAIL FROM ABSENTEE PLANTATION OWNER TO MANAGER - INTERESTING CONTENTS ON SLAVERY, WAR OF 1812, MARKET/PRICE MOVEMENTS, ETC.: 1813-22 EL group all of the same 'Golden Grove' correspondence from Samuel Martin in Balmae, Dumfries "By the Packet" to the manager of Golden Grove, his sugar plantation in Antigua. Contents are clear & concern various affects of geopolitical factors on trade inc. Napoleon, the War of 1812, etc.; plus much talk of the slaves made to work there, their religious inculcation, increasing number of deaths, etc.: "I hope you will find the Ploughman I sent from Liverpool a valuable acquisition [...] I hope in time, to hear of the Negroes there receiving relief from the use of the Plough, for we must now do all in our power (putting humanity out of the question) to ease their labour & keep up our numbers". (5 covers) Cross Reference: ANTIGUA, DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY, SLAVES AND SLAVERY