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 * A Slaver's Ferry Between Havana and the Florida Ports — Amelia Island as a Smugglers' Headquarters — The Barataria Pirates and the Smuggling Trade — Extent of the Illegal Traffic — A Georgia Governor who Left His Post to Become a Slave Smuggler,




 * Fines and Imprisonment with Rewards for Informers were not Sufficient to Stop Slave Smuggling — Workings of the Prohibitive Legislation Illustrated by the Doings of the Knife-inventor Bowie and the Pirate Lafitte — Slaves Sold BY the Pound — Influences that Led to the Piracy Act,




 * Work of British Diplomacy among the Continental Powers — When Spain agreed to Abolish the Slave-trade for a Money Consideration and Failed to Fulfil Her Contract — A Free Offer of "Sailors' Rights" which We Refused to Accept — A Shameful Record in American Slaver Legislation — The Ashburton Treaty,




 * How the Laws were Interpreted — Slavers that would Make a Fierce Fight — Famous American Privateers that Became Slavers — Whole Cargoes of Slaves Thrown to the Sharks to Avoid the Confiscation of Vessels — Tales of the Rapido, the Regulo, and Hemans's Brillante — A Cargo of Slaves Bound to Anchor and Chain and Thrown Overboard — A Slaver Who Coolly Murdered His Sweetheart and Child — A Trade that was Lucrative in Proportion to Its Heinousness,