4974 – Wanderer (1858 – 1858) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 4974

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Wanderer

Flags: usa

Tonnage: 235.0

Journey

Departure Year: 1858

Departure Location: New York

Arrival Year: 1858

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Congo River

Principal landing location: Georgia, port unspecified

Number embarked: 487

Number disembarked: 407

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Captured by United States after slaves disembarked

Sources

Jordan, 272-90<>Jordan, Jim "Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar and the Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade", Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (2009): 264-266, 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), Wanderer logbook<>Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Special Collections Department (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) Mss 172, Wanderer (Ship) Records, Logbook of the yacht “Wanderer”, FO313/64,p.76<>BNA (Kew), Foreign Office

Individuals

No information