Lot 349
Slavery.- St Vincent Island.- Akers (Edmund Fleming) Mortgage to his brother Aretas Akers II with schedule of 203 enslaved persons and 165 acres of land on Monkton's Land, St Vincent, sold for £15,664-14s-4d; with duty stamps, manuscript on vellum, 6 sheets, 1796.
Hammer Price: £1,800
Description
Slavery.- St Vincent Island.- Akers (Edmund Fleming, plantation owner, 1757-1821) Mortgage to his brother Aretas Akers II with schedule of 203 enslaved persons and 165 acres of land on Monkton's Land, St Vincent, sold for £15,664-14s-4d; with duty stamps, manuscript on vellum, 6 sheets, slightly yellowed and soiled, 560 x 680 mm., London, 2nd November 1796.
⁂ The schedule lists slaves names and, where relevant, occupations, including: carpenters, distillers, coopers, boilers, masons, carters, a fireman and a sick nurse, with names of mothers entered against their children. The present mortgage relates to part of the estate of Aretas Akers (1734-85), a substantial landowner in St Kitts and St Vincent.
Description
Slavery.- St Vincent Island.- Akers (Edmund Fleming, plantation owner, 1757-1821) Mortgage to his brother Aretas Akers II with schedule of 203 enslaved persons and 165 acres of land on Monkton's Land, St Vincent, sold for £15,664-14s-4d; with duty stamps, manuscript on vellum, 6 sheets, slightly yellowed and soiled, 560 x 680 mm., London, 2nd November 1796.
⁂ The schedule lists slaves names and, where relevant, occupations, including: carpenters, distillers, coopers, boilers, masons, carters, a fireman and a sick nurse, with names of mothers entered against their children. The present mortgage relates to part of the estate of Aretas Akers (1734-85), a substantial landowner in St Kitts and St Vincent.
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