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Two advertisements in a May 14, 1850 issue of The Semi-Weekly Journal for then-upcoming auctions of enslaved people on the Strand.

Letter from Thomas F. McKinney in Velasco, Texas, regarding supplies needed for the business, and special ordered for Jared and Leonard Groce and W.H. Wharton.

"Galveston as seen from the main mast of a ship at Central Wharf, October 1855."

Due to rising tensions between Aury and Mexican patriots like Herrera and Don Xavier Mina, Aury left Galveston in April 1817. Upon his departure, Aury sold 300 Africans whom he had seized from captured prize ships to three Mississippi men: Joseph…

Captain Guy Richards Champlin made regular deliveries of enslaved Africans to Galveston. On one voyage, Champlin arrived with over 200 Africans aboard an unknown vessel and sold them to Jean Laffite. At this time, Laffite had already replaced Aury as…

When Louis de Aury returned to Galveston in the summer of 1817, he returned with two vessels. One of the vessels was carrying an estimated 400 Africans who likely disembarked at Galveston.

After failing to establish a privateer government in Matagorda, Louis de Aury returned to Galveston in the summer of 1817. One of the vessels he returned to Galveston with was carrying an estimated 300 enslaved Africans who were in a "fever-ridden…

A report from the Convention of 1833 stating an official denunciation of the African slave trade.