Statki niewolnicze we Flotach Swiata

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Two Friends, of New Orleans, equipped slaver, with Spanish, Portuguese, and American flags. House Doc., 26 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 115, pp. 120, 160-2, 305.


I am, &c.

James Stephen, Esq. &c. &c. &c. (signed) W. Fox Strangways.

My Lord, Sierra Leone, 31 January 1839.

We have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith our report of the case of the brig Dous Amigos, Fernando Joze Carreira, master, captured under the Portuguese flag, whilst lying in Lagos Roads, on the 16th of November last, by Her Majesty's brigantine Dolphin, Lieutenant Edward Holland commanding, and condemned in the British and Spanish Mixed Court of Justice, on the 28th instant, as a Spanish vessel engaged in the slave trade, and fully equipped for that purpose.

At the moment of capture the Dous Amigos was prepared for the immediate reception of a cargo of slaves; her slave provisions were on board; her water casks, containing 15,000 gallons, were all filled with fresh water; and a complete slave deck was laid fore and aft.

The history of this vessel during the last two years has in a great measure been discovered from her papers; she was formerly the American brig, Two Friends, and left Havana under that name, and under the command of the present captain, in March 1837, bound to Bahia; she arrived at Bahia on the 18th of April, and on the 17th of the following month obtained a Portuguese passport or register from the Portuguese consul-general resident in Brazil. Her name was then translated into that of Dous Amigos; from Bahia the brig cleared out for St. Miguel, one of the Azores, by way of the coast of Africa ; but Havana, not St. Miguel, was her real destination. One successful slaving voyage to Cuba was thus made under the present passport, and the Dous Amigos, cleared out from Havana on a second expedition, bound to Lagos, on the 5th of July 1838.

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Brazylia:

Brig VIENTE E NOVE DE AGOSTO
Dimensions: 110ft x 23ft x 16ft (depth) 33.5m x 7.0m x 4.9m (depth)
Armament: 4 - 12pdr, 2 - 9pdr, 10 - 18pdr carronades
Complement: 100 (peace) / 120 (war)

Known rather as 29 DE AGOSTO she was former British brigantine CERQUEIBA
acquired on 3.9.25 and armed on 6.9.26. Hulked in 1843 at Rio as accommodation
ship for the Naval infantry.

Mi sie wydaje ze chodzi raczej o byly statek niewolniczy CERQUEIRA
z Bahia 29.10.1823 papiery upzniawiajace do przewozu z Molembo 761 niewolnikow
wlasiciel Joze Cerqueira Lima
kapitan Manuel Crdozo dos Santos
Burden 302 1/2 tons
Crew 42
18x12 pdr
7.11.1823 sailed rom Bahia
30.01.1824 zajety u wybrzezy Lagos
zajety prez HMS Bann , Courtenay (nie belo niewolnikow na pokladzie)
sent to Sierra Leone
16.3.1824 arrived Sierra Leone
18.4.1824 sent to Brazil
24.5.1824 arrived Bahia
zajecie zostalo zaskarzone przez wlascicieli

1826 (003) Class A. Correspondence with the British commissioners, at Sierra Leone, the Havannah, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam, relating to the slave trade. 1825-1826.
chyba zwrocony wlascicielowi

14.11.1824 CERQUEIRA, exportet 160 slaves from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro
5.2.1825 arrived Rio

warto przejzyc wszystko po latach (cos 25 ) Subsidios:
Built: Bahia
Owner: Jose de Corqueira Lima.
Cost: 17.322$540

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Portugalia transportowce:

Falcao (1845-1853) Angola
Despique de Inveja (1845-1852) Angola ex slaver
Bonfim (1847-1852) Angola ex Brasilian sumaca 64t
Carvalho (1847-1868) Angola ex Brasilian brig 2 guns
Voador (1848-1850) Angola ex Brasilian schooner-brig 1 gun
Esperanca (1849-1859) Angola ex Brasilian polacra 1 gun
Dande (1849) Angola
Trindade (1852-1866) Angola 125t schooner-brig 1 gun
Rodovalho (1856-1861) Angola 140t brig

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Szkuner niewolniczy

Invincible
1835 John Robb , Baltimore
114.72 tons 66.25x21.00x7.83
1835 owner Richar Wells, Baltimore
05.11.1835 to left for Havana soon [Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser, published as The Baltimore Gazette And Daily Advertiser; Date: 11-05-1835;]
27.11.1835 in Baltimore harbour , new, no captain [Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser, published as The Baltimore Gazette And Daily Advertiser; Date: 11-27-1835; Volume: 84;]
The Invincible was purchased in Baltimore by McKinney and Williams for $12013.02, and they charged the government of Texas
At the time the schooners were both in New York for repairs. The Invincible returned to Galveston on March 14, 1836

Losy pozniejsze sa tutaj:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texan_schooner_Invincible

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Ciekawe Invincible byl zakupiony razem z Brutus , tez chyba w Baltimore
W polowie 1834 roku pojawiaja sie ogloszenia w Baltimorskiej prasie ale tez w Nowym Orleanie
o nowym szkunerze Brutus szukajacym ladunku.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_%28 ... _of_war%29

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/onli ... cles/qtb02

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Prasa podawala o zatonieciu statku niewolniczegio Ivincible
Byl to byly "pilotowy szkuner" Washington

Major McGregor, special magistrate for the Bahamas, in a letter to Mr. Buxton mentions the wreck of the schooner Invincible, a slaver, on the 28th of October, 1837, and adds : " The captain's name was Potts, a native of Florida. ...
We learn from Buxton's late work on the present state of the trade, that

"The Venus, said to be sharpest clipper built vessel ever constructed at Baltimore, left that place in July, 1838, and arrived at Havana on the 4 th of the August following. She sailed from thence in September for Mozambique; there she took a cargo of slaves, being all this time under the flag of the United States. On the 7th of January, 1839, she landed 860 negroes near Havana under Portuguese colors,"

p. 23.

In certain documents, lately published by the British Parliament we have the names of eleven vessels, which sailed under the flag of the United States, from Havana to Africa for slaves in 1837, and of nineteen more, which sailed in 1888. Major McGregor, special magistrate for the Bahamas, in a letter to Mr. Buxton mentions the wreck of the schooner Invincible, a slaver, on the 28th of October, 1837, and adds:

"The captain's name was Potts, a native of Florida. The vessel was fitted out at Baltimore in America, and three-fourths of the crew were natives of the United States, although they pretended to be only passengers."

The major also mentions another slaver, with a cargo of 160 Africans, being wrecked on one of the islands, and says:

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This pretended Portuguese vessel was fitted out at Baltimore, United States, having been formerly a pilot boat, called the Washington. The supercargo was an American citizen of Baltimore,

' pp. 23, 186.

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The Sailor's magazine, and naval journal, Bände 9-10
1837
A hurricane occurred at Galveston, Texas, 3d to the 5th Oct., and the following vessels were injured :
brig Perseverance, of Baltimore ;
schr. Select, Cook, of do.;
schr. Henry, of do. ; and
brig Jane, Allen, of New Orleans ; all driven ashore, high and dry.
Brig Elbe, of New-York, dismantled, a perfect wreck ;
Tex. schr. Brutus, a total loss;
schr. Correo, ashore;
Tex. schr. Star, do.;
Tex. schr. Tom Toby, foundered ;
schr. Fourth of July, ashore ; besides several schooners ashore, names' not known.

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Jesli kogos to interesuje
to mozna spobie sciagnac baze danych Trans-Atlantyckich transportow niewolnikow:
30,000 "podrozy".

http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/databa ... load.faces