Letters received by the Secretary of the Navy from commanding officers of squadrons

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	1843-1861.
Description:	1 online resource (9,674 images).
Language:	English
Series:	Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2. Slave trade in the Atlantic world Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2. Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
Subject:	United States. -- Navy Dept. -- Records and correspondence -- History -- Sources. United States. -- Navy -- Officers -- Correspondence. United States. -- Navy Dept. -- History -- Sources. United States. -- Navy. United States. -- Navy Department. Armed Forces -- Officers. United States -- History, Naval -- To 1900 -- Sources. United States. History. Naval history. Records and correspondence. Sources.
Format:	E-Resource
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10527392

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Other authors / contributors:	United States. Navy Dept. United States. National Archives and Records Service.
Notes:	Reproductions of the originals from the Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library.
Summary:	Containing an array of correspondence regarding the activities of the Africa Squadron, a unit of the U.S. Navy that was deployed to suppress the slave trade on the West Coast of Africa, this collection is derived from that of the Office of Naval Records and Library and consists of seven volumes of letters written between January, 1845 and September, 1860, the Squadron's most active period. The commanders' communiquš, including official reports of enforcement actions, are arranged in chronological order.

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