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- GLC#
- GLC00267.042
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- March 1862
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864
- Title
- Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of 27th day of March, 1862, in relation to the slave vessel the "Bark Augusta."
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 65 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
37th Congress, 2d session, Senate Executive Document 40. Tells the story of the "Augusta," ostensibly a whaler but suspected of being a slaver. It was confiscated by the New York federal courts. The U.S. Marshall charged that federal officials had colluded with the slavetraders when the "Augusta slipped out of port under suspicious circumstances."
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