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Early 1853 Bill of Lding on Brig Julia Ford, Slave Trade

Early 1853 Bill of Lding on Brig Julia Ford, Slave Trade

$ 41.71

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    Description

    Early
    • Bill of lading for NYC druggist shipping drugs to San Juan PR on the Brig JULIA FORD, also used in slave trade
    • The Julia Ford was one of 3 ships used rather extensively for shipping freed slaves to Liberia
    • The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, commonly known as the American Colonization Society (ACS), was a group established in 1816 by Robert Finley of New Jersey which supported the migration of free African Americans to the continent of Africa. The society in 1821–22 helped to found a colony on the Pepper Coast of West Africa, as a place for free-born or manumitted American blacks. The ACS met with immediate and continuing objections from such African-Americans as James Forten and David Walker, who wished to remain in the land of their birth, saw colonization as a racist strategy for protecting slavery and purging the U.S. of its black citizens, and preferred to fight for equal rights at home... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society
    • Brig Julia Ford. Brig Zebra and Brig Alida often cited as ships used to transport the freed slave to Liberia
    • An interesting document on a ship of significance in Black history
    • Excellent condition
    Letterheads and Billheads have light creases from being mailed and/or file folded. Not defects and not mentioned unless separating or badly toned
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