Monroe County FlArchives News.....The Captured Africans; American Colonization Society July 7, 1860
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Presbyterian Banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) July 7, 1860
The Captured Africans; American Colonization Society

The New York Journal of Commerce, states that two ships have been secured by the
American Colonization Society, to convey the captured negroes at Key West to
Liberia. One of them is the Castilian, 999 tons, Capt. Proctor, who sailed last
Saturday from that port, to receive the negroes on board; and the other is the South
Shore, 941 tons, Capt. Lathrop, which will soon sail.

Dr. W. W. Young, of Washington City, and Dr. Webster Lindsly are engaged to
accompany the expedition. The exact number of negroes at Key West is 1,850, and
three vessels will be needed for their conveyance. The law specifies that but one
passenger can be allowed every two tons of a ships burthen. Government pays for each
of these vessels $10,000 or $12,000 and the Colonization Society gets $50 per head
for transportation; the latter also being under obligations to supple clothing at
Key West and on the African coast. Dr. Young states that the negroes will be landed
at Cape Mount, in Liberia, and that the Society has stipulated that the ships shall
leave the United States not later than the first of July. After discharging at Cape
Mount, they return immediately, to avoid unnecessary exposure to the African
climate.

Another vessel, the ship Miramon, of 903 tons burden, has been chartered for this
service. These three vessels will be sufficient to accommodate the whole number of
Africans now at Key West.


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