Record Data Place Unit Type Region Containing Unit Caribbean Events Date Type 09/30/1866 - 10/02/1866 A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas. Crime/Disasters 10/28/1867 - 10/29/1867 A late season hurricane smashes islands in the Lesser Antilles and then kills hundreds in Puerto Rico. Crime/Disasters People Places Name Type Barbados Nation Nassau, West Indies City or Town Documents Date Title 07/14/1857 New York Times, “Alleged Renewal of the Slave-Trade,” July 14, 1857 08/06/1859 Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The British West India (Black) Regiments,” August 6, 1859 05/13/1860 New York Herald, “The Quarantine Question and the Approaching Summer,” May 13, 1860 05/14/1860 New York Herald, “Activity of the African Slave Trade,” May 14, 1860 05/29/1860 Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “"The Awful Horrors of the Middle-Passage,"” May 29, 1860 12/28/1860 Anna H. Richardson to William Still, December 28, 1860 Images