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Stuart covers the following topics: the beginning of illegal slave trading in Galveston as initiated by privateers, smuggling operations by Texas plantation owners in the 1830s, the denouncement of illegal smuggling by the Republic of Texas…

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

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…

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.

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…

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…