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"Elizabeth" was a ship used in the human trafficking of enslaved persons and in the trade of indigo and unrefined sugar in the mid-1700s. Records from the ship are written in French.
The records relate to the ship "Elizabeth" and contain six manuscript pages concerning the trafficking of 324 guinea enslaved persons to M. de Fleurian by Captain Audebert of the Navire l'Elizabet de la Rochelle in St. Dominique in 1750. The pages also concern the sale of indigo and unrefined sugar. They are written in French and cover the period 7 April to 5 June 1750.
The documents are arranged in chronological order.
The guide to the Slaveship "Elizabeth" Records, 1750 by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Debit ledger accounts (5 June 1750), original and a copy, the original signed by de Fleurian and Audebert.
Credit ledger accounts (5 June 1750), original and a copy, the original signed by de Fleurian and Audebert.
Receipt (5 June 1750), signed by Audebert.
"Liasse de Compter" (June 1750), an unsigned slip of paper