Daily National Intelligencer Vol. XXVI No. 7908

Source catalog description

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Issue of Daily National Inelligencer, Vol. XXVI No. 7908, published June 18, 1838. On front page, third column at center is a small article titled [Capture of Slavers on the Coast of Africa] describing the work of the British brigantine Buzzard. During a nearly four year deployment, the ship captured 13 Spanish and Portuguese ships carrying a total of 4,483 enslaved Africans.

Catalog date

June 18, 1838

Recorded places

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America; West Africa, Africa

Recorded subjects

African American; Illegal slave trade; Local and regional; Mass media; Portuguese colonialism; Slavery; Spanish colonialism; Trans-Atlantic slave trade

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