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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.

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…
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