The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 426 pages of information about The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America.

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 426 pages of information about The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America.

1804. ——.  Slaver, allowed by Governor Claiborne to land fifty Negroes in Louisiana. American State Papers, Miscellaneous, I. No. 177.

1814. Saucy Jack carries off slaves from Africa and attacks British cruiser. House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 92, p. 46; 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348, p. 147.

1816 (circa). Paz, Rosa, Dolores, Nueva Paz, and Dorset, American slavers in Spanish-African trade.  Many of these were formerly privateers. Ibid., 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 92, pp. 45-6; 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348, pp. 144-7.

1817, Jan. 17. Eugene, armed Mexican schooner, captured while attempting to smuggle slaves into the United States. House Doc., 15 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 12, p. 22.

1817, Nov. 19. Tentativa, captured with 128 slaves and brought into Savannah. Ibid., p. 38; House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348, p. 81.  See Friends’ View of the African Slave Trade (1824), pp. 44-7.

1818. ——.  Three schooners unload slaves in Louisiana.  Collector Chew to the Secretary of the Treasury, House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348, p. 70.

1818, Jan. 23. English brig Neptune, detained by U.S.S.  John Adams, for smuggling slaves into the United States. House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 36 (3).

1818, June. Constitution, captured with 84 slaves on the Florida coast, by a United States army officer.  See references under 1818, June, below.

1818, June. Louisa and Merino, captured slavers, smuggling from Cuba to the United States; condemned after five years’ litigation. House Doc., 15 Cong. 2 sess.  VI.  No. 107; 19 Cong. 1 sess.  VI.-IX.  Nos. 121, 126, 152, 163; House Reports, 19 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 231; American State Papers, Naval Affairs, II.  No. 308; Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 9 Wheaton, 391.

1819. Antelope, or General Ramirez. The Colombia (or Arraganta), a Venezuelan privateer, fitted in the United States and manned by Americans, captures slaves from a Spanish slaver, the Antelope, and from other slavers; is wrecked, and transfers crew and slaves to Antelope; the latter, under the name of the General Ramirez, is captured with 280 slaves by a United States ship.  The slaves were distributed, some to Spanish claimants, some sent to Africa, and some allowed to remain; many died. House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 92, pp. 5, 15; 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348, p. 186; House Journal, 20 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 59, 76, 123 to 692, passim.  Gales and Seaton, Register of Debates, IV. pt. 1, pp. 915-6, 955-68, 998, 1005; Ibid., pt. 2, pp. 2501-3; American State Papers, Naval Affairs, II.  No. 319, pp. 750-60; Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 10 Wheaton, 66, and 12 Ibid., 546.

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