- Collection:
- Coastwise Slave Manifests, 1801 - 1860, Records of the U.S. Customs Service, 1745 - 1997
- Title:
- Inward Coastwise Slave Manifests: 1854 (April)-1856
- Creator:
- U.S. Customs Service. Savannah District
- Date of Original:
- 1854-04/1856
- Subject:
- Slave trade--Georgia--Savannah--History--19th century--Sources
Port of Savannah (Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- manifests
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Inward slave manifests submitted to the Collector of Customs at the Port of Savannah, Georgia by vessels engaged in coastwise travel. Most slave manifests in this series are recorded on standard forms and include the name of the ship and its master, port of departure, port of destination, and a list of the slaves on board. For each slave, the manifests provide first name, sex, age, stature, name of shipper or owner, and shipper or owner's place of residence. The few documents in this series dating before 1808 list the number of slaves transported but do not provide names or other personal information.
These records were created to satisfy requirements promulgated by an Act of 1807. This Act required that all vessels of 40 tons or more carrying slaves in the coastwise trade file duplicate manifests at the ports of origin and destination, pledging that the slave had not been imported after 1808.
This file was scanned as part of a collaboration effort between Ancestry and the National Archives. - Metadata URL:
- http://catalog.archives.gov/id/110570936
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Coastwise Slave Manifests, 1801 - 1860,Records of the U.S. Customs Service, 1745 - 1997, National Archives at Atlanta
- Holding Institution:
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Atlanta Branch
- Rights:
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