From the California Digital Newspaper Collection:
\nSacramento Daily Union 25 January 1861
\nhttps:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/<\/p>\n
Pressed into the Slave Trade.\u2014 New York, December 30.\u2014By
\nthe arrival of the steamer Canark, from Nassau, N. P.,
\non the 24th, we have accounts of the wreck of the American
\nship America, on Cape Lobos, with 500 Africans on board,
\ndestined for Cuba. The ship was commanded by Capt. Charles
\nBrown, who, with his crew, seized upon the schooner Liby,
\nof Nassau, and compelled her master to render assistance. <\/p>\n
The Captain of the Liby has testified before the police
\nmagistrate as follows: The wreck lay about fourteen miles
\nfrom the lighthouse; she was a ship of apparently about
\n500 or 600 tons, and from her I landed about 500 slaves
\non Cape Lobos. The Captain gave me up the wreck, saying
\nI could do what I liked with it, but gave me no money. <\/p>\n
I saved some of the rigging and copper from the ship. He
\nmade me land the slaves and I had no option. I was there
\nthree days after trying to save the rigging. Before I could
\nsave the rigging, the Captain compelled me to take him and
\nthree of his hands to Nuevitas lighthouse, Cuba, where they
\nlanded for about two hours, and returned with me to Cape
\nLobos on Wednesday week. <\/p>\n
A brig arrived four days afterward from the direction of Cuba,
\nand took off the slaves immediately; some of them were in a
\ndeplorable condition, and eleven of them died while on the
\nCape, although they had plenty of rice, molasses, and water. <\/p>\n
The Captain and crew, about thirty-six in number, of the slaver
\nused no violence toward me, although they were all armed with
\nsix-barreled revolvers and a bowie knife on each side. They
\ngave me no money. The Guardian says a detachment of sixty soldiers
\nwas dispatched by the Governor to Cape Lobos, on the 19th,
\nbut the slaves had been carried to Cuba, as well as the
\nofficers of the ship, by the brig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From the California Digital Newspaper Collection: Sacramento Daily Union 25 January 1861 https:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/ Pressed into the Slave Trade.\u2014 New York, December 30.\u2014By the arrival of the steamer Canark, from Nassau, N. P., on the 24th, we have accounts of the wreck of the American ship America, on Cape Lobos, with 500 Africans on board, destined … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,13,14,16,2249,17],"tags":[2301,503,2254,2251],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3764","6":"format-standard","7":"category-california-newspaper-archive","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-politics","10":"category-racism","11":"category-sea-stories","12":"category-slavery","13":"category-thinking-about","14":"post_tag-2301","15":"post_tag-cuba","16":"post_tag-slave-trade","17":"post_tag-slaver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}