[4CJ]

But you apparently made it up, just as you made up the statement that Yankee slave traders were active up into the Lincoln administration.

I made it up? The Cygnet, Wildfire, Toccoa, William, Bogota, Delicia, Cora, and Mary J. Kimball, to name a few, were captured in 1859-1860. Captain Nathaniel Gordon of the slave ship "Erie" was hung in New York City in 1862. He had attempted to cheat the gallows by poisoning himself with strychnine, but his stomach was pumped so that he could be hung that same day.

The Wildfire was built in Amesbury, MA in 1852. The Bogata sailed from New York around 1 Oct 1859. The William was built in 1847 at Damariscotta, ME; Washington Symmes of Phiadelphia, PA captain at her capture. The Cora was registered in New York.

The Nightingale was captured on 21 Apr 1861, near the Congo River. She was oufitted from Boston, MA. The USS Constellation captured the slaver Triton on 21 May 1861. Albert Horn was a New York merchant sentenced to five years in prison for fitting out the City of Norfolk in 1862.

[WhiskeyPapa]

#441 (the post to which you responded) contains not a word about the presence or lack thereof of Yankee captains in the slave trade.

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

And let's not forget stout southern gentlemen like Charles A. L. Lamar who was arrested for running 400 slaves into Georgia in 1858. And there was the Virginia firm of Franklin & Armfield who with their ships Issac Franklin, Tribune and Uncas ran slaves into the south for years, over 1000 into New Orleans alone in 1835.