4841 – J Harris (1859 – 1859) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 4841

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: J Harris

Flags: /

Tonnage: 276.1

Journey

Departure Year: 1859

Departure Location: New York

Arrival Year: 1859

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Whydah

Principal landing location: Freetown

Number embarked: 469

Number disembarked: 460

Number of deaths: 9

Outcome

Vice-Admiralty Court, Sierra Leone, condemned ,

Sources

ADM123/179,Grey,59.11.04,enc<>British National Archives (Kew), Admiralty, Howard,214-62<>Howard, Warren S., American Slaves and Federal Law, 1837-1862 (Berkeley, CA, 1963), Meyer-Heiselberg,61<>Meyer-Heiselberg, R., Notes from the Liberated African Department in the Archives at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Uppsala, 1967)., FO313/64,p.80<>BNA (Kew), Foreign Office

Individuals

No information