[Two Manuscript Documents] Francis Hopkinson, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Considers Prize Cases, Including Four Enslaved Captured in a British Ship by an American Privateer Brig Nesbitt

by HOPKINSON, Francis; William Lewis, William Wright

$6,800 · Offered by Between the Covers

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1781. Two remarkable manuscript documents relating to the capture of three enemy British ships in June, 1781, one of which, the schooner *Tryal*, was transporting four slaves from Bermuda to Portsmouth, Virginia. The names of all four slaves, three men and one woman, are recorded in the first..... More

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