A substantial, visually impressive, and minutely detailed manuscript journal describing the activities of the Compagnie du Sénégal during the height of the Company's involvement in the slave trade. The Compagnie du Sénégal, the French chartered company governing the Saint-Louis and Gorée territories along the Western coast of Africa, was.....
An engaging group of letters between the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Maine historical novelist and a former marine Captain stationed in Haiti turned author, concerning research for the former’s novel, Lydia Bailey. Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1885–1957) of Kennebunk, Maine, was a renowned journalist and author of American historical fiction. His Lydia.....
![A letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania in pursuit of a runaway slave.]. Thomas Contee Worthington](/pictures/thumb/5142_1.jpg?v=1560464239)
A brief letter written by a former U. S. Representative from Maryland to the Governor of Pennsylvania on behalf of a slave-owner whose slave has gone missing. Attorney Thomas Contee Worthington (1782–1847) here writes to sitting Governor of Pennsylvania George Wolf (1777–1840) on behalf of one Mr. McGill, a farmer...