slave-clippers

Updated: May 7, 2025

Yet what frightful historic memories brood over these deep waters of the Archipelago, where for nearly two centuries floated and fought the ships of sea-robbers of every nationality, and where the cunning but guilty slave-clippers, fresh from the coast of Africa, loaded with kidnapped men and women, made their harbor!

Maturin Murray Ballou - Due South or Cuba Past and Present