The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America / 1638-1870

by W. E. B. Du Bois

1821. La Pensée, captured with 220 slaves by the U.S.S. Hornet; taken to Louisiana. House Reports, 17 Cong. 1 sess. II. No. 92, p. 5; 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, p. 186.

1821. Esencia lands 113 Negroes at Matanzas. Parliamentary Papers, 1822, Vol. XXII., Slave Trade, Further Papers, III. p. 78.

1826. Fell's Point attempts to land Negroes in the United States. The Negroes were seized. American State Papers, Naval Affairs, II. No. 319, p. 751.

1827, Dec. 20. Guerrero, Spanish slaver, chased by British, cruiser and grounded on Key West, with 561 slaves; a part (121) were landed at Key West, where they were seized by the collector; 250 were seized by the Spanish and taken to Cuba, etc. House Journal, 20 Cong. 1 sess. p. 650; House Reports, 24 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 268; 25 Cong. 2 sess. I. No.

4; American State Papers, Naval Affairs, III. No. 370, p. 210; Niles's Register, XXXIII. 373.

1828, March 11. General Geddes brought into St. Augustine for safe keeping 117 slaves, said to have been those taken from the wrecked Guerrero and landed at Key West (see above, 1827). House Doc., 20 Cong. 1 sess. VI. No. 262.

1828. Blue-eyed Mary, of Baltimore, sold to Spaniards and captured with 405 slaves by a British cruiser. Niles's Register, XXXIV. 346.

1830, June 4. Fenix, with 82 Africans, captured by U.S.S. Grampus, and brought to Pensacola; American built, with Spanish colors. House Doc., 21 Cong. 2 sess. III. No. 54; House Reports, 24 Cong. 1 sess. I. No. 223; Niles's Register, XXXVIII. 357.

1831, Jan. 3. Comet, carrying slaves from the District of Columbia to New Orleans, was wrecked on Bahama banks and 164 slaves taken to Nassau, in New Providence, where they were freed. Great Britain finally paid indemnity for these slaves. Senate Doc., 24 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 174; 25 Cong. 3 sess. III. No. 216.

1834, Feb. 4. Encomium, bound from Charleston, South Carolina, to New Orleans, with 45 slaves, was wrecked near Fish Key, Abaco, and slaves were carried to Nassau and freed. Great Britain eventually paid indemnity for these slaves. Ibid.