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[^0]:    39 John Washington, 1838, "Some Account of Mohammedu-Sisëi, a Mandingo, of Nyáni-Marú on the Gambia," Journal of the Royal Geographical Society vol. 8, pp. 448-54; Washington to Lord Glenelg, July 23, 1838, CO295/123, The National Archives of United Kingdom (TNA) and D'Avezac, Notice, p. 23.
40 Santana, "Extraordinaria," p. 44.
41 French opinion on British slavery was diverse but there was a general opposition, based on national pride, to the British navy searching French ships for evidence of slave trading while Britain was promoting the indentured scheme. See Jennings, 1969, French Anti-Slavery; Johnson Asiegbu, Slavery and the Politics of Liberation, 1787-1861: A Study of Liberated African Emigration and British Anti-Slavery Policy, London, Longman; Monica Schuler, 1980, 'Alas, Alas, Kongo': A Social History of Indentured African Immigration into Jamaica, 1841-1865, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press; and Rosanne M. Adderley, 2006, 'New Negroes from Africa': Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the NineteenthCentury Caribbean, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
42 D'Avezac, Notice, p. 22. D'Avezac identified him as "M[onsieur] Vendryes, the elder;" court papers as "B[arthelemy] Vendryes" and Ade-Ojo and Yai as Jean Barthlomew Vendryes. For his full name as "Jean-Pierre Firmin Barthélemy Vendryès," see death notice announced in Paris by his wife, Adelaide Victoire Holtz, on 23 January 1849. See "Death Inventory," Archive Nationale (AN) MC/ET/XXII/368; AD. 75 Cote: VD6/74/196/1- (Paris, France) - électorales 1800-1803, Archives de Paris. Cf. https://www. geneanet.org/registres/view/116444/105; Arnaud Vendryes, "La famille Vendryes dans Les Antilles," GHC Bulletin 2 (Feb. 1989): 8-9 and "Roman Catholic Baptisms 1805-1807:" which had him as the godfather at a nephew's baptism but listed as "currently in France". See https://www.ghcaraibe.org/bul/ ghc002/p0009.html; http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/cb1805j.htm