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Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of enslaved people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia, on November 28, 1858. [1] It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. [ 1 ]
Jekyll Island The Wanderer was the last ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to Georgia. On November 28, 1858, the Wanderer arrived at Jekyll Island, where its crew smuggled ashore 409 West ...
At the end of a six-week voyage in which many of the captives died, Wanderer arrived at Jekyll Island, Georgia, on 28 November 1858 and delivered her human cargo. Word of Wanderer ' s arrival quickly spread, and a great deal of litigation ensued—both civil and criminal—but resulted in no convictions.
After the unloading was complete, Lamar and his business associates were alerted and traveled to Jekyll Island on a chartered tugboat. About 300 of the Africans were taken and held at the plantation of Montmillon in South Carolina. Others were distributed to investors. Rumors about the Wanderer soon began to circulate in local newspapers. [24]
A map of Jekyll Island from 1983. Jekyll Island is one of only four Georgia barrier islands that has a paved causeway to allow access from the mainland by car. It has 5,700 acres (23 km 2) of land, including 4,400 acres (18 km 2) of solid earth and a 240-acre (0.97 km 2) Jekyll Island Club Historic District.
Wanderer (slave ship) Media in category "Jekyll Island" This category contains only the following file. Jekyll Island Club 1930 map.jpg 3,020 × 1,983; 2.26 MB
Captain William Foster was captain of the schooner Clotilda, [9] working for Timothy Meaher, a wealthy Mobile shipyard owner and steamboat captain. In 1855 [10] or 1856, [11] Meaher had built Clotilda, a two-masted schooner 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 feet (7.0 m) and a copper-sheathed hull, designed for the lumber trade.
Igbo Landing (also called Ibo Landing, Ebo Landing, or Ebos Landing) is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of the slave ship they were on, and refused to submit to slavery in the United States .
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