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Saturday 24 May 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
Marseilles merchant P. Labat writes of how women of the West Indies received a 1704 shipment of textiles—which sold instantly, as soon as the bundles were opened: “As for payment the island women…brought sugar cane, indigo and cocoa by moonlight, products the women had their faithful slaves pilfer from storehouses after dark, which they sold [...]
