SLAVERY - ST VINCENT
Lot 83
SLAVERY - ST VINCENT
Sold for £ 960 (US$ 1,242) inc. premium

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SLAVERY - ST VINCENT
Schedule of 203 slaves appended to a mortgage from Edmund Fleming Akers "late of the Island of St Vincent" to his brother Aretas Akers, merchant of London, concerning some 165 acres on the island, comprising Lots No.11 and 12 of Monkton's Land, sold for £15,664-14s-4d; with duty stamps, on 6 sheets of vellum, usual dust-staining etc., but overall in good condition, 560 x 680 mm., London, 2 November 1790

Footnotes

  • The schedule lists slaves names and, where relevant, occupations (carpenter and distillers, coopers, boilers, masons, carters, a fireman and a sick nurse) with names of mothers entered against children. The present mortgage relates to part of the estate of Aretas Akers (1734-1785), a substantial landowner in St Kitts and St Vincent, which took his sons Edmund Fleming Akers and Aretas Akers some twenty years to unravel: for further related deeds, see the Akers family business papers in the Senate House Library, University of London (GB 0096 MS 999). Other family papers are held at the Centre for Kentish Studies (U1157, U564/C571-584).
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