Cf. _25th
Report_, _Ibid._, p. 122. De Bow estimated in 1856 that forty
slavers cleared annually from Eastern harbors, clearing yearly
$17,000,000: _De Bow's Review_, XXII. 430-1.
[45] _Senate Exec. Doc._, 33 Cong. 1 sess. VIII. No. 47, p.
13.
[46] _House Exec. Doc._, 34 Cong. 1 sess. XII. No. 105, p. 38.
[47] New York _Herald_, Aug. 5, 1860; quoted in Drake,
_Revelations of a Slave Smuggler_, Introd., pp. vii.-viii.
[48] _House Exec. Doc._, 35 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No. 89. Cf.
_26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, pp. 45-9.
[49] Quoted in _26th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p.
46.
[50] For all the above cases, cf. _Ibid._, p. 49.
[51] Quoted in _27th Report_, _Ibid._, p. 20. Cf. _Report of
the Secretary of the Navy_, 1859; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 36
Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 2.
[52] _27th Report of the Amer. Anti-slav. Soc._, p. 21.
[53] Quoted in _Ibid._
[54] Issue of July 22, 1860; quoted in Drake, _Revelations of
a Slave Smuggler_, Introd., p. vi. The advertisement referred
to was addressed to the "Ship-owners and Masters of our
Mercantile Marine," and appeared in the Enterprise (Miss.)
_Weekly News_, April 14, 1859. William S. Price and seventeen
others state that they will "pay three hundred dollars per
head for one thousand native Africans, between the ages of
fourteen and twenty years, (of sexes equal,) likely, sound,
and healthy, to be delivered within twelve months from this
date, at some point accessible by land, between Pensacola,
Fla.
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