2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Imprint, "Anno Regni ANNE Regine," 4pp, disbound, fine. November 5, 1710, "An Act ... for the relief of Suffers of the Islands of Nevis and Saint Christopher by reason of the Invasion of the French there ..." ...plus, Imprint, "Anno Quinto Georgii Regis," 4pp, disbound, fine. March 17, 1714, "An Act for relief of such Suffers of the Islands of Nevis and St. Christopher's as have Settled... and made due proof of such settlement ..." Between 1675 and 1730, the island was the headquarter for the slave trade for the Leeward Islands, with approximately 6,000-7,000 enslaved West Africans passing through on route to other islands each year. The Royal African Company brought all its ships through Nevis. In 1706, French Canadian Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, founder of the colony of Louisiana in North America, decided to drive the English out of Nevis. It was the enslaved Africans who held the French at bay by taking up arms to defend their families and the island. The main reward promised the French in the attack was the right to capture as many slaves as possible and resell them in Martinique. During the fighting, 3,400 Nevisians Slaves were captured and sent off to Martinique. After 18 days of fighting, the French were driven off the island. Among the Nevisian men, women and children carried away on d'Iberville's ships, six ended up in Louisiana, the first persons of African descent to arrive there.
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