Williams
In 1860, 513 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 7, Case ID LA-E-3654 occurred via the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Key West.
Case Details
| UID | LA-E-3654 |
|---|---|
| Case Name | Williams |
| Year | 1860 |
| Government Department | Justice and State Departments, United States of America |
| Court | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Key West |
| Trial Outcome | Condemned |
| Enslaved Total | 744 |
| Liberated Africans Total | 513 |
| Registered Total | 0 |
| Notes | Confined at Key West Depot. There were 570 Africans aboard, of whom 513 were landed at Key West. See image at https://archive.org/details/franklesliesillu00lesl/page/64/mode/2up. |
| Sources | "Landing of the Cargo of Slaves Captured on Board the American Bark Williams by the U.S. Steamer Wyandote - Disembarkation at Key West," in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 10, no. 239 (23 Jun. 1860); "Return of Vessels engaged in the Slave Trade captured by the United States' cruizers on the coast of Cuba," 1860, in “Class A. Correspondence with the British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havana, the Cape of Good Hope, and Loanda,” in T. P. O'Neill, T. F. Turley, et al., eds., Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vol. 47 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1968-1969), 22; Warren S. Howard, American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837-1862 (Berkley: University of California Press, 1963), 213-223; Sharla M. Fett, Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), 167; SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2020), Voyage ID: 4364. |
| Cite as: | Lovejoy, H. B. (2024). Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920. Past & Present, 1-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae019 Chadha, K. (2024). Regenerated Identities: A Collaborative Web-based Content Management System for Digital Humanities. International Journal of Computer Applications, 186(29), 28–33. https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume186/number29/regenerated-identities-a-collaborative-web-based-content-management-system-for-digital-humanities/ |
Event Details
| UID | LA-E-3654 |
|---|---|
| Case Name | Williams |
Departure from Africa
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Region | West Central Africa North |
| Place | Congo River |
| Enslaved Total | 744 |
Capture
| Date | 1860-05-09 |
|---|---|
| Location | Isle of Pines |
| Navy | USA |
| Ship | Wyandotte |
| Captain | Augustus T. Craven |
| Supporting Ships |
Trial
| Sentence Date | |
|---|---|
| Government Department | Justice and State Departments, United States of America |
| Court | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Key West |
| Trial Outcome | Condemned |
| Date | |
| Region | South Coast North America |
| Place | Key West |
| Liberated Africans | 513 |
| Registered | 0 |
People Details
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