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 $228,900 in 2023).[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.
- ^ a b Schermerhorn, Calvin (2015). The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. p. 114. doi:10.12987/9780300213898. ISBN 978-0-300-19200-1. JSTOR j.ctt1bh4d2w. LCCN 2014036403. OCLC 890614581.
- ^ a b Jay, William (1844). A View of the Action of the Federal Government, In Behalf of Slavery. Utica, N.Y.: J.C. Jackson. p. 39.
- ^ Skolnik, Benjamin A. (January 2021). 1315 Duke Street – Building and Property History (PDF) (Report). Office of Historic Alexandria - City of Alexandria, Virginia. pp. 47–48 (brig), 53 (sold).
- ^ a b Rothman, Joshua D.; Skolnik, Benjamin (2021-12-04). "The Brig Named Uncas". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2023-10-08.