Capture of a suspected slave ship...

Item # 707053

June 19, 1859

NEW YORK TIMES, June19, 1859 The front page has two-thirds of a column headed: "The Suspected Slaver - Description of the Belssel--Manifest of her Cargo...". The text notes in part: "The bark Orion...which arrived in this port...from the coast of Africa...been seized...upon suspicion of intention to engage in the slave trade..." with much more.
Eight pages, a bit irregular at the spine from disbinding, nice condition.