4527 B. Conveyance of half of Elysium Plantation from Robert Sutton the elder to Robert Sutton the younger and others. 6 membranes of vellum, joined at foot with 6 seals. Those named in the documents include Bryan Edwards and Sir William Young.
First issue of this journal of the Caribbean Liberation Movement, the title taken from the name of a thorn bush native to the Caribbean. Contents include a message (reprinted)from the New Beginning Movement (Trinidad & Tobago) on African Liberation Day, 1973, a memorial piece piece on Zayd Malik Shakur, and the article "Asylum or Death? The Lives of Over 100 Haitian Refugees in Florida are in Danger"
"Original manuscript document pertaining to the slave compensation claims made for the little-known Du Pail Estate in the Borough (parish) of Laborie, St. Lucia, being a contemporary true copy extracted and translated from the French appraisement maed in 1831, and used to determine the slave compensation to be paid to Marie Rose H. Roudier, widow of a planter and senior commissioner Pierre Antonie Joseph Roudier, and also to counterclaimants, two Forsyth brothers." - Voyager Press Rare Books
"Signed manuscript document tallying and describing the slaves of Prospect Estate in Trinidad, being a register of slaves working this sugar plantation from 1813 to 1822, listing 72 individuals by the English names assignedto them, their approximate age, their occupations, health, distinguishing tribal marks, and country of origin. Folio. 8 pages, on three string-tied double-leafs, laid watermark paper of Chartham Mills, papermaker W. Weatherley made in 1824 and featuring a large fleur-de-lys emblem ... Each leaf signed in the original by Thomas Amyot, the Registrar of Colonial Slaves in Great Britain." -Voyager Press Rare Books
"Guayaguayare Oil Claim Documents involving 'Trinidad's Father of Oil,' Randolph Thomas Hammond Rust and two British companies. One (1) signed agreement for land purchase off Guayaguayare Bay 17 December 1917, and one (1) accompanying for land survey plan of the parcels of land; together with one (1) signed letter rescinding the agreement in 1919." -Voyager Press Rare Books
