Yesterday the Dutch slaver The Unity, was off the coast of Berbice and due to enter the river on Sunday, according to the online reconstruction of its voyage from 1761 to 1763, done by the Zeeland Archives in the Netherlands. The vessel belonged to the MCC, an eighteenth century trading company, whose archives are held by Zeeland.
Below follows a translation of the first mate’s logbook for July 2, which indicates that twenty-six of the