Engineering:Uncas (brig)
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Short description: American and Brazilian slave ship
Uncas was one of three brigs used as slave ships that were owned by the American slave-trading firm Franklin & Armfield. Uncas was built in Connecticut in 1833 and weighed 155 tons.[1] The two-masted brig cost US$7,250 (equivalent to $192,075 in 2019).[2]
She was a packet-style coastwise transport between Alexandria, Virginia and New Orleans, Louisiana.[3] Her sisters were Isaac Franklin and Tribune.[4] Rice Ballard owned one-third of Uncas.[2]
As of approximately 1836, the master of Uncas was Nathaniel Boush.[3] Around 1837 she was sold to slave trader William H. Williams, owner of the Yellow House in Washington, D.C.[5] Still later she was sold to Brazilian slave trader Manoel Pinto da Fonseca.[5]
References
- ↑ Schermerhorn, Calvin (2014). "Capitalism's Captives: The Maritime United States Slave Trade, 1807-1850". Journal of Social History 47 (4): 908. ISSN 0022-4529. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308821.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schermerhorn, Calvin (2015) (in en-us). The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. pp. 114. doi:10.12987/9780300213898. ISBN 978-0-300-19200-1. OCLC 890614581.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jay, William (1844) (in en-us). A View of the Action of the Federal Government, In Behalf of Slavery. Utica, N.Y.: J.C. Jackson. pp. 39. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009583255.
- ↑ Skolnik, Benjamin A. (January 2021). 1315 Duke Street – Building and Property History (Report). Office of Historic Alexandria - City of Alexandria, Virginia. pp. 47–48 (brig), 53 (sold). https://media.alexandriava.gov/docs-archives/historic/info/archaeology/1315dukestbuildinghistoryskolnik2021.pdf.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rothman, Joshua D.; Skolnik, Benjamin (2021-12-04). "The Brig Named Uncas" (in en-US). Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/domestic-slave-trade-us-history-uncas.html.
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