1818. ——. Three schooners unload slaves in Louisiana. Collector Chew to the Secretary of the Treasury, House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, p. 70.
1818, Jan. 23. English brig Neptune, detained by U.S.S. John Adams, for smuggling slaves into the United States. House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 36 (3).
1818, June. Constitution, captured with 84 slaves on the Florida coast, by a United States army officer. See references under 1818, June, below.
1818, June. Louisa and Merino, captured slavers, smuggling from Cuba to the United States; condemned after five years' litigation. House Doc., 15 Cong. 2 sess. VI. No. 107; 19 Cong. 1 sess. VI.-IX. Nos. 121, 126, 152, 163; House Reports, 19 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 231; American State Papers, Naval Affairs, II. No. 308; Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 9 Wheaton, 391.
1819. Antelope, or General Ramirez. The Colombia (or Arraganta), a Venezuelan privateer, fitted in the United States and manned by Americans, captures slaves from a Spanish slaver, the Antelope, and from other slavers; is wrecked, and transfers crew and slaves to Antelope; the latter, under the name of the General Ramirez, is captured with 280
slaves by a United States ship. The slaves were distributed, some to Spanish claimants, some sent to Africa, and some allowed to remain; many died. House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, pp. 5, 15; 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, p. 186; House Journal, 20 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 59, 76, 123 to 692, passim. Gales and Seaton, Register of Debates, IV. pt. 1, pp. 915–6, 955–68, 998, 1005; Ibid., pt. 2, pp. 2501–3; American State Papers, Naval Affairs, II. No. 319, pp. 750–60; Decisions of the United States Supreme Court in 10 Wheaton, 66, and 12 Ibid., 546.
1820. Endymion, Plattsburg, Science, Esperanza, and Alexander, captured on the African coast by United States ships, and sent to New York and Boston. House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, pp. 6, 15; 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, pp. 122, 144, 187.
1820. General Artigas imports twelve slaves into the United States. Friends' View of the African Slave Trade (1824), p. 42.
1821 (?). Dolphin, captured by United States officers and sent to Charleston, South Carolina. Ibid., pp. 31–2.
1821. La Jeune Eugène, La Daphnée, La Mathilde, and L'Elize, captured by U.S.S. Alligator; La Jeune Eugène sent to Boston; the rest escape, and are recaptured under the French flag; the French protest. House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, p. 187; Friends' View of the African Slave Trade (1824), pp. 35–41.