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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…

Galveston fortifications 1880.jpg

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A portrait engraving of Monroe Edwards from the frontispiece of "Life and Adventures of the Accomplished Forger and Swindler, Colonel Monroe Edwards," published by H. Long & Brother in New York 1848.

Douglas, J. Richardson's map of the city of Galveston in 1859 from Sandusky's survey made in 1845.jpg

Ben and Jesse runaways from Galveston 1837.png

SMW 1843 tax record.jpg
Galveston County tax records show Samuel May Williams owning and paying taxes on a varying number of enslaved people over more than a decade.

Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 22, 1854 Page 3 of 8.jpg

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Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels Filed at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1807-1860; Microfilm Serial: M1895; Microfilm Roll: 25
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