Mrs. Watson, nee
Lackey, an American woman noted for being in the slave trade, has recently died
at Cadiz, Spain. There were three
indictments against her in New York for fitting out slavers, and she fled to Spain
last summer. She fitted out several
slavers at Cadiz, but the United States Consul at that port, being advised of
her movements, withdrew the registers of her vessels and they could not sail. It is said that the female slaver then
resolved to drink and die. She was a
native of New York.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 1
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