Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

A Monsieur le lieutenant-goenéral de l'Amirauté de Guienne

by: Cabarrus, Dominique; Dumas, commander of the Pacificateur; Berliquet, M; Pallotte, M; Amirauté de Guyenne

Publication date: 1785

Topics: Commerce, Slavery, Imprint 1785

Publisher: A Bordeaux : de l'Imprimerie des Freres Labottiere, Place du Palais

Collection: jcbhaiti; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: French

18, [2] p. ;|c26 cm. (4to) Caption title

Imprint from colophon

Concerning a conflict between Dominique Cabarrus, a trader in Bordeaux, and one Captain Dumas, commander of Le Pacificateur on voyage bound for Saint-Domingue. Instead of going to Saint-Domingue, the ship was rerouted. Includes some tables on p. 9 and 12 which describe how easily a captain could make a profit when hired to command a ship, in this case by loading for his own accounts 10 black slaves and several bales of other merchandise

Signed on p. 18: Me. Berliquet, avocat, and Me. Pallotte, procureur

Signatures: A-D² (D2 blank)

Engraved head piece

John Carter Brown Library acquired with the assistance of the Wormser Fund