Albreda in an abolition-era account

Sarah Bowdich Lee described Albreda as a French post near Jillafree and alleged that people were still being trafficked through it in the 1820s, with coastal shipping and an overland movement toward Salem. Her account is an abolition-era British perspective, not a court finding about every Albreda resident. It is also a reminder that a change in law did not by itself end the trade. ^{[books-bowdich-1825-42]}

The 1938 colonial chronology records Albreda's transfer from French to British control in 1857. That later boundary change should not be read backward as proof that the 1820s trade had a single institutional cause or that the village's own life was wholly defined by it. Local historical testimony is still needed. ^{[books-colonial-1938]}