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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A slave ship recently arrived in Jamaica lost six slaves who drowned after being terrified by a dissection performed on a deceased slave by the captain and surgeon. The captain and officers plotted to murder their selected slaves but were disarmed and punished after the plot was discovered.
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A slave ship lately arrived at Jamaica, lost six prime slaves from the curiosity of the captain, who prevailed on the surgeon to gratify him with an anatomical process on a body of a deceased negro. Several of his countrymen being on deck at the time, were so enraged or terrified at beholding the operation, that they plunged into the sea, and were instantly drowned. The mischief was likely not to have ended here, for the captain and officers having severally selected a mistress from amongst the sable coloured cargo, each of them secreted a knife, with an intention of killing their paramours in the night; but a discovery being made of their diabolical plot, by one more tender-hearted than the rest, they were disarmed, and most heartily punished.
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Jamaica
Event Date
Lately
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six prime slaves drowned; captain and officers disarmed and punished
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A slave ship lately arrived at Jamaica, lost six prime slaves from the curiosity of the captain, who prevailed on the surgeon to gratify him with an anatomical process on a body of a deceased negro. Several of his countrymen being on deck at the time, were so enraged or terrified at beholding the operation, that they plunged into the sea, and were instantly drowned. The captain and officers having severally selected a mistress from amongst the sable coloured cargo, each of them secreted a knife, with an intention of killing their paramours in the night; but a discovery being made of their diabolical plot, by one more tender-hearted than the rest, they were disarmed, and most heartily punished.