Engineering:Tribune (brig)
Tribune was one of three brigs used as slave ships that were owned by the American slave-trading firm Franklin & Armfield. Tribune was 161 tons and was built by the shipbuilder Hezekiah Childs in Connecticut in approximately 1831.[1] Tribune was initially used as a packet-style coastwise transport between Alexandria, Virginia and New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] Her sisters were Isaac Franklin and Uncas.[3] As of approximately 1836, the master of Tribune was Samuel Bush.[2] According to a report of the Albany Evening Journal that same year, "The after-hold will carry about 80 women, and the other about 100 men...On either side were two platforms running the whole length, one raised a few inches, and the other about half way up to the deck...They were about 5 1⁄2 or 6 feet deep. On them they lie as close as they can stow away."[1] Around 1837 she was sold to slave trader William H. Williams, owner of the Yellow House in Washington, D.C.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schermerhorn, Calvin (2014). "Capitalism's Captives: The Maritime United States Slave Trade, 1807-1850". Journal of Social History 47 (4): 907–908. ISSN 0022-4529. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308821.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jay, William (1844) (in en-us). A View of the Action of the Federal Government, In Behalf of Slavery. Utica, N.Y.: J.C. Jackson. pp. 39. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009583255.
- ↑ Skolnik, Benjamin A. (January 2021). 1315 Duke Street – Building and Property History (Report). Office of Historic Alexandria - City of Alexandria, Virginia. pp. 47–48 (brig), 53 (sold). https://media.alexandriava.gov/docs-archives/historic/info/archaeology/1315dukestbuildinghistoryskolnik2021.pdf.
- ↑ Rothman, Joshua D.; Skolnik, Benjamin (2021-12-04). "The Brig Named Uncas" (in en-US). Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/domestic-slave-trade-us-history-uncas.html.
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