The ''Isaac Franklin'' was an American
coastwise slave ship operated in the 1830s that was initially owned by and named for slave trader
Isaac Franklin
Isaac Franklin (May 26, 1789 – April 27, 1846) was an American slave trader and plantation owner. Born to wealthy planters in what would become Sumner County, Tennessee, he assisted his brothers in trading slaves and agricultural surplus alon ...
. ''Isaac Franklin'' was a steam-powered brig with one deck, two masts, and a square stern, measuring 189 8/95 tons.
She was described in one advertisement as "coppered
ndcopper-fastened." A manifest from 1837, held at the
New-York Historical Society
The New York Historical (known as the New-York Historical Society from 1804 to 2024) is an American history museum and library on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It ...
, lists
Lawrence Millaudon, a sugar planter, and George Lane, as the consignees of a shipment of 73 enslaved people sailing from
Alexandria, District of Columbia, to
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
on the brig ''Isaac Franklin''. ''Isaac Franklin'' was sold to slave trader
George Kephart of Alexandria around 1837; her sister ships ''
Uncas
Uncas () was a '' sachem'' of the Mohegans who made the Mohegans the leading regional Indian tribe in lower Connecticut, through his alliance with the New England colonists against other Indian tribes.
Early life and family
Uncas was born ...
'' and ''
Tribune
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'' were sold to slave trader
William H. Williams of Washington City, District of Columbia.
One of the later owners of ''Uncas'' was Brazilian slave trader
Manoel Pinto da Fonseca.
References
Slave ships of the United States
Brigs
1830s ships
Franklin & Armfield
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