Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
A complete and authentic issue of the New York Herald, May 24, 1860, 12pp., disbound, separated at the spine, minor edge tears. From page running 2/3 column “The Five Hundred Africans at Key West,” reports on the capture of the American slave ship, Wildfire. “The total number including men women and children is 507. ... There are at present under treatment at the hospital about thirty-five sick ...” Mohawk operated against pirates and slavers off the east coast and in the Caribbean through 1861, capturing slave ship Wildfire in Old Bahama Channel 28 April 1860, and delivering the prize to Key West where the crew was imprisoned. The 530 Africans on board were placed in a camp for protection, guarded by Mohawk's marines, until they could be returned home.
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