Browse Items (55 total)
Sort by:
The Semi-Weekly Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 14, 1850
Two advertisements in a May 14, 1850 issue of The Semi-Weekly Journal for then-upcoming auctions of enslaved people on the Strand.
"Slave Ships" by Ben C. Stuart
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…
Thomas F. McKinney to Samuel May Williams. 2 June 1834
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.
"Negro Laborers"
NARA T252. Brady coordinated a team of photographers to document the Civil War, resulting in over 5,600 portraits, landscapes, and battle scenes.
Galveston, Central Wharf, 1855
"Galveston as seen from the main mast of a ship at Central Wharf, October 1855."
The Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 44, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 14, 1863
![[cropped] Impressment call_Weekly Telegraph.png](https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/facingthegulf/files/square_thumbnails/00ccadeb29110a83f02607599707f6ed.jpg "[cropped] Impressment call_Weekly Telegraph.png")
E.H. Cushing, editor for Houston's Weekly Telegraph newspaper, urges readers to send enslaved laborers to Galveston to assist in building fortifications.