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Description

1. 1 preliminary leaf, 8 pages : folded diagram; 22 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Slave trade
2. Slave traders
3. Trials
4. Slavery
5. Slavery > History > 19th century
6. Slave ships > France > Nantes > History > Sources
7. Mildmay, George William St. John, 1792-1851
8. History
9. Slave ships > Nigeria > Bonny River > History > Sources
10. Slave trade > France > Nantes > History > Sources
11. Trials > France > History > 19th century
12. Vigilante (Ship)
13. Sources
14. Slave trade > Great Britain > History > Sources
15. Antislavery movements > Great Britain > Sources
16. Slave trade > Africa > History > Sources
17. Vigilante (Ship) Pictorial works
18. France > Nantes
19. France > Colonies > History
20. Slave traders > France > Nantes > History > Sources
21. Africa

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Pictorial works.
3. Sources.

Call number

1. Sc Rare D 16-26 (Lapidus Collection)

Note

1. Schematic drawings of the interior of the Vigilante, illustrating how the slaves were positioned.

Additional formats (note)

1. 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.

Title

1. Affaire de la Vigilante : bâtiment négrier de Nantes.

Publisher

1. Paris : De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, 1823.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Additional formats

1. 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

1. 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, ..."
2. 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:

1. Request Access to Special Collections Material
2. Full text available online via Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. Exemplar der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek mit der Signatur: H.g.hum. 253-13
3. View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Place of publication

1. France Paris.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare D 16-26 (Lapidus Collection)
2. Sc Rare 326.1-A (Affaire de la Vigilante)