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Capture of a slave ship...
Item # 698110
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January 12, 1854
DAILY OHIO STATESMAN, Columbus, Jan. 12, 1854
* H.N. Ganbrill schooner
* Slaver - slave ship captured
* USS Constitution's last prize
Page 3 has: "The Slaver Gambrill--The Recent Seizure of a Slaver on the Coast of Africa" which includes: "...it was found that the slave deck had all been laid...a large quantity of water & slave provisions, sufficient to subsist a considerable number of slaves on the passage thence to the island of Cuba...He admitted that he was going in for a cargo of slaves when taken..." with more.
Four pages, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War