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The Amistad... Suspicious vessel captured...
The Amistad... Suspicious vessel captured...
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August 31, 1839
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, August 31, 1839
* La Amistad slave ship
* Suspicious vessel captured
* African slaves commit mutiny
The front page has a report reading in part: "A Suspicious Vessel which had been spoken several times on our coast, has been captured by...the brig Washington, and carried into New London. This vessel, a schooner, called L'Amistad, (Friendship) sailed from Havana bound to Neuvitas, with a cargo of dry goods, three Spanish Creoles and an old planter, who owned the schooners cargo and slaves. The other passengers and crew were...murdered, when the slaves--instigated by the creoles, rose....The Washington fell in with the schooner at anchor off Montaug...".
Other news of the day throughout, 16 pages, 8 1/4 by 11 3/4 inches, lite scattered foxing, very good condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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