A complete cotton plantation inventory, with 175 enslaved individuals, likely from the Seychelles Manuscript printed at Antananarivo

printed at Antananarivo

Complete copy in original binding of Romeyn de Hooghe’s wonderful print series showing the greatest Dutch palace and – especially – its gardens

Few surviving manuscripts convey with such technical precision the physical vulnerability of plantation infrastructure in late-eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue

also known as the French East India Company

Signed and dated on page 2: “Fait à Xantes

A complete cotton plantation inventory, with 175 enslaved individuals, likely from the Seychelles Manuscript printed at AntananarivoInventory of a cotton plantation. [Runion, Mauritius, or the Seychelles, ca. 1780 1820]. 4 (24. 3 18. 4 cm), 6 pp. Manuscript in ink in French. Unbound. A detailed manuscript inventory of a large cotton estate in the French Indian Ocean world, remarkable for recording more than 175 enslaved individuals by name, origin, occupation, and often by family relationship. Compiled at the turn of the nineteenth century and divided into three lots, it provides