News Article Reporting an Attempt to Smuggle an Enslaved Person Named Moses from Charleston to Philadelphia

Authors

Mary Brown

Files

Description

News article reporting an attempt to smuggle an enslaved man named Moses, belonging to Miss Mary Brown of Charleston, on a steamship from Charleston to Philadelphia

ISBN

MUM00431_stone_b1_f4_018

Publication Date

10-28-1848

Relational Format

archival material

City

Charleston (S. C.)

Keywords

Enslaved persons ; Slaveholders ; Slavery -- South Carolina ; Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- Sources

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Brown, Mary, "News Article Reporting an Attempt to Smuggle an Enslaved Person Named Moses from Charleston to Philadelphia" (1848). Lantern Project. 103.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lanternproject/103

Original Format

article

Original Collection

Alfred H. Stone Collection, Archives & Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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