https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-william-mackinnon-antigua-slavery-letter-redwood-october-1753.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee archive: William Mackinen letter to Abraham Redwood, Antigua, 18 October 1753, advising Redwood on purchasing enslaved Africans for the Antigua sugar plantation Manuscript letter from William Mackinen of the Antigua Mackinnon estate to Abraham Redwood, dated 18 October 1753, advising on the purchase of enslaved Africans, on selecting people from the 'best countrys', and on stocking the plantation with creoles for inheritance. Archived under Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-william-mackinnon-antigua-slavery-letter-redwood-june-1755.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee archive: William Mackinen and Stephen Blizard letter to Abraham Redwood, Antigua, 13 June 1755, on the purchase of ten Gold Coast enslaved Africans for the plantation Manuscript letter from William Mackinen and Stephen Blizard to Abraham Redwood, dated 13 June 1755, reporting the purchase of ten enslaved people from a Gold Coast cargo and explaining the labour shortage on the Antigua plantation. Archived under Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-william-mackinnon-antigua-slavery-letter-redwood-march-1757.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee archive: William Mackinen and Stephen Blizard letter to Abraham Redwood, Antigua, 24 March 1757, concerning Redwood's vessels on the African coast and the purchase of nine enslaved people Manuscript letter from William Mackinen and Stephen Blizard to Abraham Redwood, dated 24 March 1757, reporting on Redwood's vessels in the African slave trade, French naval activity in the Gambia, and the purchase of nine enslaved people for the Antigua plantation. Archived under Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-william-mackinnon-antigua-slavery-letter-redwood-february-1755.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee archive: William Mackinen and Stephen Blizard letter to Abraham Redwood, Antigua, 20 February 1755, on the purchase of twenty-three Gold Coast enslaved Africans from Blizard and Banister Manuscript letter from William Mackinen and Stephen Blizard to Abraham Redwood, dated 20 February 1755, recording the purchase of twenty-three Gold Coast enslaved people — eighteen men at thirty-five pounds sterling and five women at thirty-four pounds sterling — for the Antigua plantation. Archived under Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-artists-vision-mackinnon-antigua-plantation-overview.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee research: artist's reconstruction of the Mackinnon sugar plantation in Antigua during the eighteenth century — wide overview of estate, fields and works Reconstructed view of the Mackinnon sugar plantation in Saint John Parish, Antigua, during the eighteenth century, showing estate buildings, sugar works, and surrounding cane fields. Visual aid commissioned for the Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee plantation records archive to contextualise the William Mackinen / Abraham Redwood correspondence. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-artists-vision-mackinnon-antigua-plantation-cane-field.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee research: artist's reconstruction of dense sugar cane fields on the Mackinnon plantation in Antigua, with a narrow path cutting through the cane Reconstructed view of dense sugar cane fields on the Mackinnon plantation, Antigua, where enslaved Africans cut and carried cane during the eighteenth-century sugar economy. Commissioned for the Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee plantation records archive. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-artists-vision-mackinnon-antigua-plantation-boiling-house.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee research: artist's reconstruction of the boiling house interior on the Mackinnon plantation in Antigua, where enslaved labour processed sugar cane juice into raw sugar Reconstructed interior of the boiling house on the Mackinnon plantation, Antigua, where enslaved Africans worked through extreme heat to process cane juice into raw sugar during the eighteenth century. Commissioned for the Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee plantation records archive. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/about-team https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-team-emma-jane-mackinnon-lee-translator.png Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee — translator and independent researcher of Caribbean estate records and Mackinnon plantation history Portrait of Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee, translator across Italian, English, and French, and independent researcher of Caribbean estate records, Antigua plantation correspondence, and the Mackinnon family's links to the transatlantic slave trade. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com https://emmajanemackinnonlee-web3fashion.com/images/emmajanemackinnonlee-team-connor-oshiel-screenwriter.png Connor O'Shiel — writer and screenwriter of historical fiction, collaborator with Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee on Mackinnon plantation archive research Portrait of Connor O'Shiel, writer and screenwriter of historical fiction, working from Budapest with research into Caribbean slavery and Antigua plantation history. Collaborator with Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee on the Mackinnon plantation records archive. https://emmajanemackinnonlee.com