Echo_(1845_ship)

<i>Echo</i> (1845 ship)

Echo (1845 ship)

Captured 1858 with illegal slave cargo

Echo was a sail-powered ship launched at Baltimore, Maryland and registered at New Orleans.[1] On 8 February 1858 she sailed to Loango where she embarked 450–455 captives. USS Dolphin captured her on 21 August at a small island off Cuba and took her into Charleston, South Carolina where she was condemned and her captain and crew tried for piracy.[1] On the Middle Passage between Africa and Cuba 141 captives died; she arrived at Charleston with 306.[1] According to Frederic Bancroft in Slave Trading in the Old South, the crew was acquitted by a Charleston jury on charges of violating the law prohibiting the importation of slaves.[2]

United States law required the return of the Africans to Monrovia, Liberia. USS Niagara carried 271 surviving captives to Liberia where 200 arrived.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Echo voyage #4248.
  2. [2]
    Bancroft, Frederic (2023) [1931]. Slave Trading in the Old South. Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman. University of South Carolina Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-1-64336-427-8.
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