GUADELOUPE 1804–1848. 5 Letters: Letter from BASSE-TERRE (Gu - Lot 555

GUADELOUPE 1804–1848. 5 Letters: Letter from BASSE-TERRE (Guadeloupe) dated 25 Brumaire, Year 13 (November 16, 1804), signed BELLEGARDE. 6 pages, in-4°, concerning a lawsuit between General Ambert and Mr. de Beaumont. “I only wanted some assistance in acquiring the BEAUSÉJOUR plantation, which is of little value in its current condition and requires extensive repairs… but since it is very close to the great river… Lolo… would like to find a way to make his fortune, but… the ventures he undertook on his voyage from St. Barthélemy to St. Thomas ended in a shipwreck that resulted in heavy losses. He also purchased a plantation… ” + Letter written from LA ROCHELLE on February 27, 1819, addressed to Mr. FARCE PARFAIT at his plantation in Grande Terre, Guadeloupe: “I’d like to talk to you about your comrades, fellow sufferers in Guadeloupe, now back in France… I’m writing to you on the 27th; I don’t know when the ship will depart—it’s anchored in the harbor of La Rochelle, loaded with mules bound for Guadeloupe… I have just learned that I am being promoted to second lieutenant…” + Letter from BORDEAUX dated May 9, 1837, addressed to Olivier BONNET in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe + Business letter from BORDEAUX dated May 9, 1837, addressed to Olivier BONNET in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, regarding the sale of sugar from his plantation. “The proposed law reducing sugar duties is deterring buyers. The little that was being bought was only from hucksters, desperate for cash… In the meantime, sugar is selling fairly readily in our market… the abundance of beet sugar in northern France is causing this difference… ” Enclosed: 2 sheets: “sales account and net proceeds from 20 barrels of raw sugar from Guadeloupe…” + Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) March 11, 1841, signed by COLLIN RICHARDIÈRE, regarding his slave Polidor, “a constant runaway,” killed by a forest patrol. “Unfortunately, this was not an authorized patrol, so we will not be reimbursed… ” + Letter from Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), August 8, 1848, addressed to a schoolteacher in GAP (grammatical errors and missing words). Six months after the abolition of slavery. The collapse of Guadeloupe’s economy and the ruin of the colonists. “…the Republic has arrived, Dear Marie, and the Paris Revolution has toppled the colonial edifice. The colony is no longer a perfect, rich, and flourishing land. It is now nothing more than a corpse… all the landowning colonists are ruined; they no longer have workers to do the labor…”