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Fiche de Desarmement of the first two African slave-trade ships to Louisiana, dated October 4, 1719. Duc du Maine (along with the Aurore) was a slave ship that on June 6, 1719, brought the first African slaves to Louisiana. She had carried them from Senegambia. [1] [2]
Fletcher, 1771-1783 ship owned by John Fletcher of London and mastered by Peleg Clarke of Newport, Rhode Island carried tea [19] to the colonies and slaves to Jamaica. [20] Fredensborg, Danish slave ship, sank in 1768 off Tromøya in Norway, after a journey in the triangular trade. Leif Svalesen wrote a book about the journey.
Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...
The Louisiana Territory was broken into smaller portions for administration, and the territories passed slavery laws similar to those in the southern states but incorporating provisions from the preceding French and Spanish rule (for instance, Spain had prohibited slavery of Native Americans in 1769, but some slaves of mixed African–Native ...
The cargo ship Dali collided with a bridge support while departing Baltimore toward Sri Lanka early on March 26, sending the span of Interstate 695 into the Patapsco River. Eight workers had been ...
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
The Singapore-based company owns the Dali, the massive container ship that rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in late March after it lost power, causing a large section of the bridge to ...
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