Slavery

Scope and Contents Large indenture on vellum relating to legal transactions concerning slaves and estates in St Andrews, Grenada (West Indies), involving mainly but not exclusively Evan Baillie, John and Catherine Bagot, and Alexander Fraser. The first page is a schedule of the enslaved people present on the plantation in 1817, and the children born in the following years. The list gives their first name, their origin, their age, and any 'distinctive mark'.

Scope and Contents Notebook No. 129 was kept by Lyell during his trip to America in 1845-6, after his lecture tour, and contains his observations while he visited several plantations worked by enslaved people extracted from undocumented regions of Africa, and bought at auction. Mr. and Mrs. Lyell stayed with James Hamilton Couper at Hopeton plantation for two weeks in January 1846. Couper was a member of the British Royal Geological Society, and Lyell was President at the time. Hopetoun plantation was established...

Scope and Contents This notebook contains notes about slave religion, dances, festivities, and Lyell's observations of the lives of enslaved people in Georgia. This is interspersed with geological observations, lists of boxes sent and received of specimens, and cross section illustrations of landscapes. This notebook is mostly written in pencil. The index is located at p. 113-117, and is in pen. Unitarianism, Abolitionism p. 4 List of 'Boxes Sent'; shells,...

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