{"product_id":"printed-by-a-young-black-man-in-french-guyana","title":"Geprint door een jonge zwarte man in Frans-Guyana","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLouis-Henri Saulces de Freycinet (1777–1840).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBulletin des actes administratifs de la Guyane française. [Nos. 1–12 for the year 1828.]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCayenne, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1828.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8°. \u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e240 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eContemporary marbled paper wrappers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eVery rare complete 1828 run of the official monthly bulletin issued by the colonial government of French Guiana. The \u003ci\u003eBulletin\u003c\/i\u003e was the main printed record of French colonial administration in Guiana and ran from 1827-1866. After 1833 the series was titled \u003ci\u003eBulletin officiel de la Guyane française\u003c\/i\u003e. Each issue was printed locally at the \u003ci\u003eImprimerie du Gouvernement\u003c\/i\u003e in Cayenne and distributed to magistrates and public offices; very few have survived outside official archives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe first volume of this 1828 issue opens with the founding statutes of the Government Press of French Guiana. Article 1 states that the Chief of the Printing and Bookbinding Workshops had a racially diverse staff under his orders: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e“For the Printing Department: a compositor, a pressman, a labourer (Chinese), and a \u003ci\u003enégrillon\u003c\/i\u003e [Black youth] from the colonial workshop; for the Bookbinding Department: a bookbinder and a sewer (Chinese).”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe bulletins record decrees, ordinances, appointments, tariffs, and local regulations, including many that concern the lives of enslaved people, such as: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"293\" data-start=\"208\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"293\" data-start=\"210\"\u003eDetachment of Blacks employed in clearing and draining the lands of Mana, p. 113.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"427\" data-start=\"294\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"427\" data-start=\"296\"\u003eThree Blacks arrested for \u003cem data-end=\"334\" data-start=\"322\"\u003emarronnage\u003c\/em\u003e (escape) at Mana declared forfeited and returned to the colonial service workshop, p. 134.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"507\" data-start=\"428\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"507\" data-start=\"430\"\u003eTrousers granted to Black boys (\u003cem data-end=\"474\" data-start=\"462\"\u003enégrillons\u003c\/em\u003e) over seven years old, p. 185.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"608\" data-start=\"508\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"608\" data-start=\"510\"\u003eClothing of Black women assigned to the personal service of the heads of administration, p. 225.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"690\" data-start=\"609\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"690\" data-start=\"611\"\u003eReward to the Indian captain Alexis for the arrest of runaway Blacks, p. 104.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"817\" data-start=\"691\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"817\" data-start=\"693\"\u003eReward to Michel, a Black slave of the plantation \u003cem data-end=\"754\" data-start=\"743\"\u003eGuatimala\u003c\/em\u003e, for capturing offenders in Mont-Sinéry and Macouria, p. 75.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"962\" data-start=\"818\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"962\" data-start=\"820\"\u003eRenewal of the decree requiring that marriages between free people of colour and their enslaved partners be preceded by manumission, p. 215.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-end=\"1060\" data-start=\"963\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1060\" data-start=\"965\"\u003eRepeal of that decree, restoring the earlier \u003cem data-end=\"1021\" data-start=\"1010\"\u003eCode Noir\u003c\/em\u003e provisions of 1685 and 1724, p. 226.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThese were enacted under Governor Louis-Henri Saulces de Freycinet (1777–1840). A former naval officer and colonial administrator of Île Bourbon (Réunion), Freycinet governed French Guiana from 1827 to 1829, working to reform the penal system, revive plantation agriculture, and restore the colony’s finances after decades of decline. Together, these issues offer a continuous and exceptionally rare record of local governance and colonial policy in early nineteenth-century Guiana.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eRarity:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e Surprisingly absent from Abonnenc, Hurault \u0026amp; Saban, \u003ci\u003eBibliographie de la Guyane française\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. I (1957). We have traced no complete 1828 set in commerce. The BnF holds the only full run that we could trace, see: FRBNF32732137 (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/cb32732137k\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ehttp:\/\/catalogue.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/cb32732137k\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e). Their copy has a 12-page index at the end, which lacks in the copy we offer here.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e Lacks index. Spine faded and worn, but inside in excellent condition, wholly untrimmed and partially unopened.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/b\u003eHenri Mager, \"Annuaire de la presse coloniale\", 1891, p. 87-88 : \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.digitale-sammlungen.de\/view\/bsb11602551?page=91\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.digitale-sammlungen.de\/view\/bsb11602551?page=91\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52140078072151,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/dbc703a5-b7c6-4838-97ce-55c511608cf7.png?v=1762849689","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/nl\/products\/printed-by-a-young-black-man-in-french-guyana","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}