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Showing posts with label Jamaica. Show all posts
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, December 19, 1850

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WASHINGTON, [D. C.], December 19, 1850. MY DEAR SIR: I am very much obliged to you for your kind letter and attention to the subject which...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Speech of George Thompson: Published August 8, 1835

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In Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery in the British West India Islands, on the First Anniversary of that event, by the Massachusett...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Friday, June 12, 1863

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I called at an exchange office this morning, and asked the value of gold: they offered me six to one for it. I went to a slave auction at 1...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 18, 1861

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An exceedingly hot day, which gives bad promise of comfort for the Federal soldiers, who are coming, as the Washington Government asserts, ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Wreck Of A British Frigate – Her Britannic Majesty's War Steamship Conqueror, Of A Hundred Guns, Cast Away In The Bahamas

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A correspondent of the Havana Diario de la Marina writes from Nassau, under date of Jan. 12th: “You will have heard by the Reindeer, th...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Arrival Of Treasure

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NEW YORK, March 25. – Steamer Champion arrived this morning from Aspinwall with 480,000 dollars in treasure. The latest news from South...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

First Session -- 37th Congress

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(MR. HALE’S REMARKS – CONCLUDED.) The Senator from Kentucky, (Davis) looks upon it in that view entirely.   He says the negroes to be ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

From Aspinwall

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NEW YORK, May [3]. – The steamship Northern Light from Aspinwall brings $615,000 California treasure. Our recent victories were celebrated ...