Record Data
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
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.
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.
