Letters and cabinet photograph, 1846-1891 (bulk 1846-1849).

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Letters and cabinet photograph, 1846-1891 (bulk 1846-1849).

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Chiefly letters to Parker's father, Richard Green Parker, a teacher and textbook author. While letters often mention his father's writing and financial difficulties, they primarily describe a voyage on board the United States brigantine Boxer, part of a slaving squadron. The trip, begun in 1846, included stops at principal slave stations on the west coast of Africa, including Monrovia, Liberia; Ambrize, St. Paul de Loando, and Cabinda, Angola as well as the Congo River. The ship also docked at the Cape Verde Islands; the Canary islands; St. Antonio, Prince's Island; and the U.S. Consulate at Madeira. Parker wrote of hopes both to intercept slave ships at sea and take prize money. He described the superior maneuverability of steam vessels over sailing ships, which allowed steamboats to be more successful in intercepting ships of slave traders. A letter in 1846 describes the miserable conditions of the former slaves who were freed and transported to Liberia by the American Colonization Society. Two letters concern Parker's commission as U.S. Consul for the Cape Verde Islands. Also includes a cabinet card photograph of the Reverend James Jellis Page, an Episcopal minister in Cumberland County, Virginia.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Page, James Jellis, 1822-1898.

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Episcopal minister, of Cumberland County, Va. From the description of Papers, 1843-1972. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20030903 ...

Boxer (Ship)

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Parker, Montgomery D.

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Privateer (Captain's Clerk); appointed U.S. Consul for the Cape Verde Islands in 1848. Possibly Montgomery Davis Parker, d. 1900, who was a U.S. Army officer in 1879. From the description of Letters and cabinet photograph, 1846-1891 (bulk 1846-1849). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 24560871 ...

American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869

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American teacher and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1839 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609829 ...