In 1860, 507 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-3651 occurred via the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Key West
| RegID | LA-E-3651 |
|---|---|
| Case Name | Wildfire |
| 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 | 530 |
| Liberated Africans Total | 507 |
| Registered Total | 0 |
| Notes | Confined at Key West Depot. There were 530 Africans aboard, of whom 507 were landed at Key West. |
| Sources | "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: 4362. |
| Cite as |
| X Capture | -8895435.603716 |
|---|---|
| Y Capture | 2635968.299166 |
| Ship Status | Liberated Africans |
| Date of departure from a place or port in Africa generally following the purchase of enslaved people. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | 1860-03-12 |
| Region of departure from Africa. Required entry. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. | West Central Africa North |
| Place or port of departure from Africa, if known. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN | Congo River |
| Capture date at sea or on land, if known. Date of the sentence. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | 1860-04-26 |
| Location | Near Sagua |
| Navy | USA |
| Ship | Mohawk |
| Captain | Craven |
| Supporting Ships | |
| Sentence Date | |
| Date of arrival to the place where the trial, purchase, or asylum occurred, resulting in "liberation" and indenture. Includes YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | 1860-04-26 |
| Region of arrival around the world. Required field. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. Other regions outside of Africa include, Western Europe, East Coast of North America, etc. | South Coast North America |
| Place or port of arrival around the world. Required field. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN | Key West |