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Staunton Spectator, And General Advertiser Foreign News March 2, 1837
Staunton, Virginia
Cautionary note: slave trade; enslaved girls
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A Bombay Courier letter reports extensive slave trade at Mocha, with over 700 girls aged 10-18 imported in ten days, and a severe cholera outbreak that killed the Company's agent, the captain of the American brig Waverly, and 42 others in one day.
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