- Title Information
- Title
- Sales of twenty four negroes
- Subtitle
- November 25, 1765
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Willock, Alexander
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Genre (aat)
- sales records
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- Place Term:
Text
- Antigua
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1765-11-25
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 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.
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
- Identifier:
COLID
- 17
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="JCB Manuscript ID")
- BFBR 680-8-11/25/65
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1157644401717605
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.