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Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Consists of a price list taken from the log of the merchant ship Daniel and Henry that sailed for the Guinea Coast of Africa from Dartmouth, England, on February 24, 1700, with a cargo of goods valued at £2252 in the care of Walter Prideaux. Prideaux has marked 37 of the 48 items listed as particularly recommended for Gold Coast trading.

Arrangement

Materials are grouped by accession.

Collection History

Acquisition:

AM 2009-50

Purchased in November 2008 .

Appraisal

No material was removed from the collection during 2017-2019 processing.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Dina Britain on August 20, 2007. Finding aid written by Traci Ballou-Broadnax on September 5, 2007.

Finding aid revised by Kelly Bolding in 2017 to improve description of enslaved people and separate materials that did not fit within the collection scope. Finding updated with new material by Kelly Bolding in February 2018, September 2018, October 2018, April 2019, June 2019, August 2019, September 2019, and January 2020.

Finding aid updated with new acquisition by Armando Suarez in January 2019.

No additions will be made to this collection. Accessions relating to this topic will be added to the General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection (C0140).

In 2024, Amy C. Vo rehoused oversized materials into more appropriate housing, and made accompanying description updates.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research.

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Credit this material:

Price List of Goods Carried by the Daniel and Henry to the Guinea Coast for Trade; Princeton University Library Collection on Slavery in the Americas, C1210, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Firestone Library
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Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (mss): Box 1

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Separated Materials

During 2017 processing, materials that did not fit into the topical scope of slavery in the Americas were separated and placed into different collections. Simeon Johnson materials (AM 16859) were separated and made into a collection: Simeon Johnson Papers (C1589). Two Frederick Douglass letters (AM 12182), a William Ellery manuscript (AM 2013-59), and military correspondence regarding African American soldiers in Tennessee after the Civil War (AM 12182) were separated and placed into the General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection (C0140).

Names:
Clinton, Henry, Sir (1738?-1795)
Van Rensselaer, K. K. (Killian Killian) (1763-1845)