Record Data
Source citation
“Another Cargo of 600 Slaves Landed at the South,” Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, August 9, 1859, p. 2: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
Lowell Daily Citizen & News
Newspaper: Headline
Another Cargo of 600 Slaves Landed at the South
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
3
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Another Cargo of 600 Slaves Landed at the South – Washington, Aug. 8. – A cargo of six hundred Africans has been landed on the coast of Florida, near Tampa. As soon as the landing was effected, the vessel was fired and abandoned. This statement is made on the authority of United States Marshal Blackburn.
