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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Two seamen escaped slavery in Algiers, where they were captured in July during a British naval reconnaissance. They report harsh conditions for five companions and a severe plague with 100 daily burials. The escapees are quarantined on a lazaretta ship in Malaga harbor.
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"Two seamen lately escaped here from Algiers, where they had been in slavery ever since July last: when our ships were before that place: They were taken in a boat reconnoitring the harbour. Their escape was most miraculously accomplished in an open boat. They have left five of their companions, who are employed in hard service, chained, ill clothed and worse fed. These two men are not come on shore, but are on board the Lazaretta ship in the harbour. The plague rages so much at Algiers, that these men report they had seen a hundred persons buried in a day."
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Primary Location
Algiers
Event Date
Feb. 16
Outcome
two seamen escaped; five companions remain in slavery, chained and poorly treated; plague at algiers with 100 persons buried daily.
Event Details
Two seamen escaped from slavery in Algiers, captured in July when British ships were off the coast during a harbor reconnaissance in a boat. Their escape was in an open boat. They left five companions in hard labor, chained, ill-clothed, and poorly fed. The escapees are on board the Lazaretta ship in Malaga harbor due to the plague raging in Algiers, where they saw 100 burials in a day.