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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.

Item from Catalog 341 (released for April, 2024)

Category: Pre-Civil War