Tips to Tracing a Slave Ship (Ep:02)
Question : How do you determine where a slave ship originated? Analyze and take Inventory or Information from Document - Slave Manifest. Gather slave name and approximate age with description: Moses, 38 years old, 6 feet, copper skin. - Ship information. ship name: SS Louisian, ship captain, date of transport, shipper. Research ship Capt. and and route W. H. Talbot, NOLA was a Captain of the SS Louisiana, a Texas U. S. Mail Line. Newspaper search will provide a lot of contemporary information on the Capt. and Steamship Louisiana. This Texas Mail line circled from Indianola Texas, to Galveston to New Orleans. Resource : Local Newspapers : Portal to Texas History Research the Shipper Be sure to note all names on ship manifests, but be very deliberate with all information on the shipper. Who is the person named on ship manifest, from where (may not be the same as the ship). Obituaries and Local News Resources : Newspapers, genealogy databases, county histories Understand the water...
