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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, an American privateer, arrived at Galveston Bay in a captured prize ship named L'Enriquita carrying 174 enslaved Africans. It is unclear who the ship belonged to or where its original destination was before Champlin…

Captain Guy Richards Champlin, an American privateer, arrived at Galveston Bay in a captured prize ship named Patronille carrying 174 enslaved Africans. It is unclear who the ship belonged to or where its original destination was before Champlin…