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NARA T252. Brady coordinated a team of photographers to document the Civil War, resulting in over 5,600 portraits, landscapes, and battle scenes.

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…

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…

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…

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…