"Slave Ships" by Ben C. Stuart

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Title

"Slave Ships" by Ben C. Stuart

Description

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 government, the life of infamous smuggler Monroe Edwards, and 1843 report on the slave trade from British consul William Kennedy

Creator

Stuart, Ben C.

Source

Ben C. Stuart Papers, MS29-0028. Rosenberg Library.

Date

Undated

Identifier

Slave Ships, Box 2, Folder 1, Ben C. Stuart Papers, MS29-0028. Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas.