Call Number:

MC.801.02.003

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Letter describing the purchase of enslaved people (HC.MC.801.02.003), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1797

Abstract:

This letter is dated from Boston, Massachusetts, on April 3, 1797. It is signed by Benjamin Cobb and Benjamin Homer, both Boston residents, who owned the schooner Fair Lady. The letter is from the boat's owners and sent to the captain, Joshua Delano Jr., and Mr. Durant, a merchant. The ship was travelling from St. Croix to Havana, Cuba, to sell enslaved persons. The letter gives advice about port choice and describes the ideal type of enslaved person they should purchase in St. Croix to sell in Havana. (Information from Black Americana Collectibles)

This letter surrounds the trade of schooner Fair Lady, owned by Benjamin Cobb and Benjamin Homer of Boston. During the Revolutionary War, this vessel had been commissioned as a gunboat, but this letter comes from its second life as a cargo ship. The boat traded many types of cargo along the East Coast and in the Caribbean. It also trafficked enslaved persons.

This letter is dated from Boston, Massachusetts, on April 3, 1797. It is signed by Benjamin Cobb and Benjamin Homer, both Boston residents, who owned the schooner Fair Lady. The letter is from the boat's owners and sent to the captain, Joshua Delano Jr., and Mr. Durant, a merchant. The ship was travelling from St. Croix to Havana, Cuba, to sell enslaved persons. The letter gives advice about port choice and describes the ideal type of enslaved person they should purchase in St. Croix to sell in Havana. (Information from Black Americana Collectibles)

One item in one folder.