HIST 115: Postcards from the Atlantic World (HC)

1797. The ship was travelling from St. Croix to Havana, Cuba, to sell enslaved persons. The letter gives advice about port choice and describes the ideal type of enslaved person they should purchase in St. Croix to sell in Havana.

1773, Rhode Island

Samuel Vernon on the shipping of indigo, cotton and other goods

1757-1765.
Shipments include sugar to and from Antigua.

written up in Antigua in 1758.

By Mungo Park
See also Mungo Park and William Forbes letter ca. 1805 regarding the exploration of the west coast of Africa (Charles Roberts collection)

Passed by the Assembly and Confirmed by His Majesty in Council, Feb. 23, 1683 : To Which Is Added a Short Account of the Island and Government Thereof : With an Exact Map of the Island.
By Francis Hanson.
London: Printed by H. Hills for Charles Harper ..., 1683.

Papers date from 1756 to 1793.
Israel Pemberton and the other leaders of the Association sought to represent the interests of the Delaware in their ongoing dispute with the Pennsylvania government over the so-called “walking purchase.” They monitored and participated in a series of treaty negotiations in the late 1750s and early 1760s. The papers contain hundreds of unique and detailed accounts of behind-the-scenes treaty negotiations; historical documents related to Native American affairs; the correspondence of Pemberton and others relating to fund-raising and the exigencies of Pennsylvania politics; and missives from Indigenous leaders, transcribed by a network of Indigenous “go-betweens."

Although this group was founded in the 19th century, their records include some 18th century materials, including "Cherokee's message to the Mingoes, June 1758" and a message from message from Cornplanter in reply to an offer from the Quakers to teach Native Americans (1796).

London : Printed for J. Wilkie, 1759.

October 5, 1738
To the Governor of New York

From "Brothers at Onohooquawge"
November 12, 1764
With two following letters

"Evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from the devouring waves of the sea; amongst which they suffered shipwrack: and also, from the cruel, devouring jaws of the inhumane canibals of Florida. Faithfully related by one of the persons concerned therein"
Philadelphia, printed ; London, Reprinted, and sold by T. Sowle, 1700

"Containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians ... "
By William Bartram
London : Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1792

Describing particularly, the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Child, Peru, and Mexico...
William Dampier.
London: Print. for J. Knapton, 1697.

By Leo Africanus.
Londini, Impensis G. Bishop, 1600.

By Lionel Wafer.
London : Printed for J. Knapton, 1699.

"the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another ... and the various adventures between the French, and the Iroquese confederates of England, from 1683-1694. A geographicl description of Canada ... with remarks upon their government, and the interest of the English and French in their commerce. Also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages ... with an account of the authors retreat to Portugal and Denmark ... to which is added, a dictionary of the Algonkine language, which is generally spoke in North-America ... "
London : Printed for H. Bonwicke, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke; and S. Manship, 1703.

"with A journal kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas; upon a journal from St. John's."
London : Sold by W. Nicoll and G. Woodfall, 1766