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LaFayette

Citizen of Two Worlds

Digital Facsimiles His Guiana Plantation and Emancipation 4 items

Over 10,000 items comprise the Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection. A sampling of sixty images and documents have been digitized and are presented in this web site, organized into seven thematic categories.

Browse items in the "His Guiana Plantation and Emancipation" category below.

2. Letter to Madame Lafayette

Description:
From Miolas Jacquemin, a missionary in Cayenne, French Guiana, describing violent effects of the French revolution on the colony. Madame Lafayette oversaw the management of the Lafayettes' Guiana settlement.
Attribution:
Jacquemin, Miolas
Date:
November 28, 1789
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 56 Folder 16

3. English anti-slavery "squib" naming Lafayette

Description:
Forwarded to Lafayette by Thomas Windealt
Date:
August 30, 1830
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 86 Folder 39

4. "Description of a Slave Ship"

Description:
First page of a French abolitionist tract marked "affairs of Cayene"
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
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