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Wreck of a ship with 289 slaves on board...
Wreck of a ship with 289 slaves on board...
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April 26, 1841
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., April 26, 1841
* Trouvadore - Spanish slave ship
Page 3 has a brief article: "A Slaver Wrecked" noting that: "The brig Troubadour...with 289 slaves on board...was wrecked ...on the Caycas Islands. All on board were saved...the vessel was totally lost...The negroes were taken possession of by the authorities of the island."
Four pages, nice condition.
wikipedia notes: Trouvadore was a Spanish slave ship that was shipwrecked in 1841 near East Caicos in the course of a run transporting Africans to be illegally sold to the sugarcane plantations in Cuba. As the United Kingdom had a treaty with Spain prohibiting the international slave trade and had abolished slavery in its colonies in 1833, it freed the 192 slaves who survived the wreck. Individuals and families, a total of 168 Africans, were placed with salt proprietors for apprenticeships in the Turks and Caicos Islands; the remaining 24 Africans were settled in Nassau.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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