Records, 1810 June 30-Sept. 13.

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Joseph Walden & Co. (Charleston, S.C.). Records, 1810 June 30-Sept. 13.

Records, 1810 June 30-Sept. 13.

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Correspondence re plans for importation of group of slaves from Brazilian port of Salvador to gulf coast of the Spanish territory of West Florida after the official end of U.S. participation in the international slave trade in 1808. Letter, 30 June 1810 with postscript 18 July [1810], written by Joseph Walden & Co. to Messrs. Chew & Relf (New Orleans, La.) advises, "We expect a vessel belonging to our correspondent Theophilo DeMello of the City of San Salvador ... to arrive on the coast of Florida in the month of September with the cargo of about 300 Negroes and as we have been informed that they cannot be landed there without a permission from the Governor of Pensacola ..." Walden further requests the New Orleans firm's "assistance in procuring a permission for the Portugues[e] Ship Bellona, Jaoa Dias de Carvelho Master." The letter further explains that permission is required "in time to meet his ship at Mobile as she is expected to arrive at that place." A second letter, 13 Sept. 1810, written by Chew & Relf, brokers, to John Forbes & Company, Pensacola, Fla., advises that they were sending agent Francois de Morant to Florida and requests assistance in procuring the necessary permission "to enter and to dispose of Cargo of Slaves at Mobille [in Spanish West Florida, later Mobile, Alabama]."

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