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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
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Capture of Two Top Sail Slave Schooner Bolodora by H.M. Schooner Pickle, Lieut. I.B.B. McHardy, on the 6th of June, 1829, 1831
The Spanish schooner Voladora (often called Bolodora) left Africa loaded with captives on October 2, 1828. Just off Cuba, the ship encountered HMS Pickle; after an exchange of gunfire, the Voladora surrendered with a cargo of 335 slaves.
Edward Duncan after William J. Huggins
The Mariners' Museum

Capture of Two Top Sail Slave Schooner Bolodora

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