The New York Times, July 19, 1860
(The New-Orleans papers…) contained a dispatch, three days since, from our city, to the effect that 103 negroes had been safely delivered, per schooner, to persons in this vicinity. It’s a true bill, we hear. The sons of Afric were brought here, delivered to a steamboat, and are now, we take it for granted, safe, and not likely to undergo what the imported darkies so detest—deportation.1 Whoever conducted this affair, has our congratulations on his or their success, as the case may be, whether the Africans came from the Gold Coast via Key West, or whether they made a straight-out trip by the shortest route from their native land.
We take it that the trade is, to all intents and purposes, opened; why not? Why should not those who are in want of negro labor import it at a low cost when they are civilizing and christianizing a set of barbarians by the same course which redounds to their interest? — Mobile Register, July 14.
We take it that the trade is, to all intents and purposes, opened; why not? Why should not those who are in want of negro labor import it at a low cost when they are civilizing and christianizing a set of barbarians by the same course which redounds to their interest? — Mobile Register, July 14.
- This statement is blatantly ridiculous. The imported “negroes” on the Clotilda wanted nothing more than to be returned to the homes that they had been stolen. Bewildered as to what their future held and unable to communicate with any but a few that had been imported with them, they certainly did not feel safe in their new “home.”