1. Inventory of slaves chosen by Lescallier, the intendant of Guiana, to work on the Lafayettes' colonial plantation

Description:

They were received by De Geneste, an agent of Lafayette, on March 1, 1789.

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

3. English anti-slavery "squib" naming Lafayette

Description:

Forwarded to Lafayette by Thomas Windealt

Date:

August 30, 1830

4. "Description of a Slave Ship"

Description:

First page of a French abolitionist tract marked "affairs of Cayene"