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Capture of a slave ship: deplorable condition of the slaves...



Item # 690625

June 04, 1860

NEW YORK HERALD, June 4, 1860 

* Famous slaver "Wildfire" capture
* African slave trade print fame


Page 4 has a column headed: "Activity In The Slave Trade" "Additional Particulars of the Capture of the Bark Showing French Colors" "Condition of the Africans at Key West".
There are 4 reports here, taking almost an entire column, with subheads: "The Captured Africans--The Necessity of Doing Something--Their Deplorable Condition--Fears of an Epidemic" "Slave Trade--Increase of the Colony at Key West by the Cargo of the Bogota--Policy for their Disposition--The Captain and Crew in Havana" and more.
Eight pages, nice condition.

Category: Pre-Civil War