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Slave ship is abandoned... Trouble with the Creek Indians...
Slave ship is abandoned... Trouble with the Creek Indians...
Item # 696843
May 28, 1825
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, May 28, 1825 Inside has: "The Creeks" being a report from Milledgeville, Georgia, noting: "...for the protection of the frontier against Indians hostility, and also for ensuring the personal safety of the agent, whose life is said to be threatened by the Indians...the murder of Hawkins, the interpreter..." with more.
This is followed by an item headed; "In the Circuit Court of the U.S. for the district of Georgia, at Milledgeville" concerning the situation.
The back page has: "The Slave Trade" noting in part: "...arrived...from Rio de Janeiro...fell in with a brig with her masts in the water, abandoned by the crew; but a number of blacks were holding by the starboard fore chains and cat-head...took 31 off the wreck & ten from inside the vessel...and the blacks stated that the crew left her when she became water logged..." with more.
Sixteen pages, 6 by 9 1/2 inches, very nice condition.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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