APPENDIX C.
TYPICAL CASES OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE AMERICAN SLAVE-TRADE.
1619-1864.
This chronological list of certain typical American slavers is not intended to catalogue all known cases, but is designed merely to illustrate, by a few selected examples, the character of the licit and the illicit traffic to the United States.
1619. ——. Dutch man-of-war, imports twenty Negroes into Virginia, the first slaves brought to the continent. Smith, Generall Historie of Virginia (1626 and 1632), p. 126.
1645. Rainbowe, under Captain Smith, captures and imports African slaves into Massachusetts. The slaves were forfeited and returned. Massachusetts Colonial Records, II. 115, 129, 136, 168, 176; III. 13, 46, 49, 58, 84.
1655. Witte paert, first vessel to import slaves into New York. O'Callaghan, Laws of New Netherland (ed. 1868), p. 191, note.
1736, Oct. ——. Rhode Island slaver, under Capt. John Griffen. American Historical Record, I. 312.
1746. ——. Spanish vessel, with certain free Negroes, captured by Captains John Dennis and Robert Morris, and Negroes sold by them in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York; these Negroes afterward returned to Spanish colonies by the authorities of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Colonial Records, V. 170, 176–7; Dawson's Historical Magazine, XVIII. 98.