1870, Sept. 16.  Great Britain:  Additional Treaty.

“Additional convention to the treaty of April 7, 1862, respecting the African slave trade.”  Concluded June 3, 1870; ratifications exchanged at London August 10, 1870; proclaimed September 16, 1870. U.S.  Treaties and Conventions (1889), pp. 472-6.

1871, Dec. 11.  Congress (House):  Bill on Slave-Trade.

On the call of States, Mr. Banks introduced “a bill (House, No. 490) to carry into effect article thirteen of the Constitution of the United States, and to prohibit the owning or dealing in slaves by American citizens in foreign countries.” House Journal, 42 Cong. 2 sess. p. 48.

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APPENDIX C.

TYPICAL CASES OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE AMERICAN SLAVE-TRADE. 1619-1864.

This chronological list of certain typical American slavers is not intended to catalogue all known cases, but is designed merely to illustrate, by a few selected examples, the character of the licit and the illicit traffic to the United States.

1619. ——.  Dutch man-of-war, imports twenty Negroes into Virginia, the first slaves brought to the continent.  Smith, Generall Historie of Virginia (1626 and 1632), p. 126.

1645. Rainbowe, under Captain Smith, captures and imports African slaves into Massachusetts.  The slaves were forfeited and returned. Massachusetts Colonial Records, II. 115, 129, 136, 168, 176; III. 13, 46, 49, 58, 84.

1655. Witte paert, first vessel to import slaves into New York.  O’Callaghan, Laws of New Netherland (ed. 1868), p. 191, note.

1736, Oct. ——.  Rhode Island slaver, under Capt.  John Griffen. American Historical Record, I. 312.

1746. ——.  Spanish vessel, with certain free Negroes, captured by Captains John Dennis and Robert Morris, and Negroes sold by them in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York; these Negroes afterward returned to Spanish colonies by the authorities of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Colonial Records, V. 170, 176-7; Dawson’s Historical Magazine, XVIII. 98.

1752. Sanderson, of Newport, trading to Africa and West Indies. American Historical Record, I. 315-9, 338-42.  Cf. above, p. 35, note 4.

1788 (circa). ——.  “One or two” vessels fitted out in Connecticut.  W.C.  Fowler, Historical Status of the Negro in Connecticut, in Local Law, etc., p. 125.

1801. Sally, of Norfolk, Virginia, equipped slaver; libelled and acquitted; owners claimed damages. American State Papers, Commerce and Navigation, I. No. 128.

1803 (?). ——.  Two slavers seized with slaves, and brought to Philadelphia; both condemned, and slaves apprenticed.  Robert Sutcliff, Travels in North America, p. 219.