GUADELOUPE 1804-1848. 5 Letters: Letter from BASSE-TERRE (Gu - Lot 432

GUADELOUPE 1804-1848. 5 Letters: Letter from BASSE-TERRE (Guadeloupe) 25 Brumaire An 13 (16 November 1804) signed BELLEGARDE. 6 pages in-4°, about a lawsuit between General Ambert and Mr de Beaumont. "I only wanted facilities for the acquisition of (the dwelling of) BEAUSÉJOUR which is of little value in the state it is in, and which requires immense repairs... but as it is very close to the great river... Lolo... would like to work on the means of making a fortune for himself, but... the ventures he had made on his voyage to St Barthélémy and St Thomas ended in a shipwreck which caused great losses. He also bought a house..." + Letter written from LA ROCHELLE on February 27, 1819, addressed to Mr FARCE PARFAIT at his Habitation in la grande Terre, Guadeloupe: "I would like to speak to you about your comrades, fellow sufferers in Guadeloupe, now back in France... I am writing to you on the 27th, I don't know when the Bâtiment will leave, it is in the harbor of La Rochelle, loaded with mules for Guadeloupe... I learn that I am becoming a sub-Lieutenant..." + Letter from BORDEAUX on May 9, 1837, addressed to Olivier BONNET in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe + Commercial letter from BORDEAUX on May 9, 1837, addressed to Olivier BONNET in Ste Anne, Guadeloupe, concerning the sale of sugar from his Habitation. "The draft law on the reduction of sugar duties intimidates buyers. The little that was bought, was only to junk dealers, in a hurry for money... In the meantime sugars are sold quite commonly on our place... the abundance of beet sugars in the north of France causes this difference..." Enclosed 2 sheets: "account of sale and net product of 20 barrels of raw sugar from Guadeloupe...". + Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) March 11, 1841, signed COLLIN RICHARDIÈRE, about his slave Polidor, "constantly marooned", killed by a wood patrol. "Unfortunately it was not an authorized patrol so we will not be reimbursed..." + Letter from Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) August 8, 1848, addressed to an Institutrice in GAP (defects and missing words). 6 months after the abolition of slavery. The collapse of Guadeloupe's economy and the rout of the colonists. "...the republic has come, Dear Marie, and the Paris revolution has toppled the colonial edifice. The Colony is no longer a perfect land, rich and flourishing. It is nothing but a corpse... all the colonist owners are ruined, they have no more arms for work..."