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Affaire de la Vigilante : bâtiment négrier de Nantes.
- Title
- Affaire de la Vigilante : bâtiment négrier de Nantes.
- Publication
- Paris : De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, 1823.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | Sc Rare D 16-26 (Lapidus Collection) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Book/Text | Restricted use | Sc Rare 326.1-A (Affaire de la Vigilante) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 1 preliminary leaf, 8 pages : folded diagram; 22 cm
- Summary
- The case of the brig La Vigilante from Nantes, a vessel employed in the slave trade, which was captured by Lieutenant Mildmay in the river Bonny on the coast of Africa, on the 15th of April 1822; a 240 tons burden which had on board, at the time she was taken, 345 slaves; they were found lying on their backs on the lower decks, as represented on the drawing; a horrific incident, as many of the slaves were shackled and suffered lacerations, others jumped overboard and eaten by sharks.
- Subjects
- Slave trade
- Slave traders
- Trials
- Slavery
- Slavery > History > 19th century
- Slave ships > France > Nantes > History > Sources
- Mildmay, George William St. John, 1792-1851
- History
- Slave ships > Nigeria > Bonny River > History > Sources
- Slave trade > France > Nantes > History > Sources
- Trials > France > History > 19th century
- Vigilante (Ship)
- Sources
- Slave trade > Great Britain > History > Sources
- Antislavery movements > Great Britain > Sources
- Slave trade > Africa > History > Sources
- Vigilante (Ship) Pictorial works
- France > Nantes
- France > Colonies > History
- Slave traders > France > Nantes > History > Sources
- Africa
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Sources.
- Note
- Schematic drawings of the interior of the Vigilante, illustrating how the slaves were positioned.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available on microfiche and digital format; on microfiche as Sc Micro F-600; and the digital versions via Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and anti-slavery databases, and on free on the web via Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Digitale Bibliothek/M/nchener Digitalisierungszentrum digital copy H.g.hum. 253-13; & in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare D 16-26 (Lapidus Collection)
- OCLC
- 51208770
- Title
- Affaire de la Vigilante : bâtiment négrier de Nantes.
- Publisher
- Paris : De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, 1823.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Also available on microfiche and digital format; on microfiche as Sc Micro F-600; and the digital versions via Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and anti-slavery databases, and on free on the web via Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Digitale Bibliothek/M/nchener Digitalisierungszentrum digital copy H.g.hum. 253-13; & in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database.
- Local Note
- The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this item. They are both post-Lawrence Reddick addition to the collection. Copy 1 in Sc Rare 326.1-A is imperfect: disbound, lacks the folded diagram or plate; stapled spine; loose in a mylar wrapper, and housed in a commercially made 4-flap archival binder. It has no accession #) and includes a 1972 onward stamp: "The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 103 West 135th Street, ..."Copy in Sc Rare D 16-26 (Lapidus Collection) is part of the Lapidus Collection donated in 2016. Bound in multi-color marble printed paper wrappers and housed in a commercially made 4-flap archival binder.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Place of Publication
- France Paris.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare D 16-26 (Lapidus Collection)Sc Rare 326.1-A (Affaire de la Vigilante)