In March 1845 vessels of the British and American surveillance squadrons cooperated in the capture of the schooner Spitfire of New Orleans which was collecting a slave cargo at the Rio Pongo on Africa's western coast. This article considers the context of that collaboration, the trial of the Spitfire's captain in Boston, and the complex methods that slavers used to conceal a vessel's nationality and ownership and to avoid seizure. It also focuses on an American trader who lived on the African coast and acted as a broker to facilitate that trade.


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    Titel :

    US Slave Trading on the Rio Pongo: Evidence from the capture and trial of the Spitfire of New Orleans, 1845


    Beteiligte:
    Mouser, Bruce (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    BKL:    55.86 Schiffsverkehr, Schifffahrt / 55.40 Schiffstechnik, Schiffbau
    Lokalklassifikation TIB:    275/7035




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