Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Capture of a Slaver with 300 Negroes,” December 20, 1859

    Source citation
    “Capture of a Slaver with 300 Negroes,” Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, December 20, 1859, p. 4: 4.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Chicago Press and Tribune
    Newspaper: Headline
    Capture of a Slaver with 300 Negroes
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    4
    Newspaper: Column
    4
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    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.

    Capture of a Slaver with 300 Negroes.

    NEW YORK. Dec. 19. Advices from Sierra Leone, report that a brig, supposed to be the John Harris, of New York, had been captured on the African Coast by an English steamer and taken to Freetown. The brig had 300 slaves on board when captured.

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