E. A. Rawlins
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e-a-rawlins-283-1238265
title:
E. A. Rawlins
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The E. A. Rawlins was an American barque of the 1850s that some suspected was used in the transatlantic slave trade, which by then had been illegal under the United States law for 50 years. However, rising slave prices had made this limitation controversial in some parts of the U.S. South, where there was a nascent movement to reopen the transatlantic slave trade. In August 1858, an American diplomat in Cuba wrote Secretary of State Lewis Cass that the E. A. Rawlins was likely to have landed 658
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Suspected American pirate ship, 1850s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Rawlins
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2023-12-27T07:49:30Z
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