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N. C. Trowbridge | |
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Born | Cambridge, Vermont, United States | July 8, 1815
Died | April 23, 1879 Canton, Mississippi, United States | (aged 63)
Occupation(s) | Slave trader, plantation owner, racehorse breeder |
Nelson Clement Trowbridge, usually doing business as N.C. Trowbridge, was an American businessman who worked as both a merchant and farmer in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a slave trader in the Deep South for approximately 25 years prior to the American Civil War. Trowbridge trafficked in slaves in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Louisiana. He also became a plantation owner in Mississippi. Trowbridge was indicted by the U.S. government on piracy charges in the case of the Wanderer, an illegal transatlantic slave ship, as he was a co-owner of the ship. Many of the letters written by C. A. L. Lamar about his illegal transatlantic slave trade enterprise of the late 1850s were addressed to Trowbridge ("Trow") in New Orleans.[1] Lamar and Trowbridge, who had done business together for many years in enterprises ranging from breeding racehorses to mining for gold, were responsible for at least one blockade-runner ship, the Ceres, during the American Civil War.
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breeding and betting on horses with C. A. Lamar[2][3]
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Wisconsin banking, Poughkeepsie[4]
American Railroad Chair manufacturing Company[5]cotton smuggling during the war[6]
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Poughkeepsie flowers[7]
Gold mine in Columbus Ga w Lamar & other guy[8]
Blockade running ACW - Lincoln letter[9]
Got somebody pardoned in Madison Co MS[10]
See also
[edit]- Bernard Kendig – American slave trader (~1813–1872), born Pennsylvania
- Ziba B. Oakes – American slave trader (1807–1871), born Maine
- List of slave traders of the United States
- Slave markets and slave jails in the United States
- Bibliography of the slave trade in the United States
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "A Slave-Trader's Letter-Book". The North American Review. 143 (360): 447–461. 1886. ISSN 0029-2397.
- ^ "Sporting Intelligence". New York Daily Herald. February 4, 1846. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
- ^ "Sporting Intelligence". New York Daily Herald. February 7, 1846. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
- ^ "Annual report of the Bank Comptroller of the State of Wisconsin for the year ending ... 1857". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "American railroad journal ser.2:v.7 (1851)". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in further compliance with the resolution of the Senate of December 14, 1870, additional information in ..." HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "The Horticulturist and Journal of rural art and rural taste v.15 1860". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Annals of Savannah, 1850-1937; a digest and index of the newspaper record of events and opinions, abstracted from the files of the Savannah morning news ... v. 7, pt. 1 (1856)". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson, with an introduction by John T. Morse, Jr. ... v.1". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ^ "Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi ... 1880". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
Books and articles
[edit]- Bancroft, Frederic (2023) [1931, 1996]. Slave Trading in the Old South (Original publisher: J. H. Fürst Co., Baltimore). Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman (Reprint ed.). Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-64336-427-8. LCCN 95020493. OCLC 1153619151.
- Flanders, Ralph Betts (1933). "Chapter VIII. The Acquisition and Hire of Slaves". Plantation Slavery in Georgia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press. LCCN 33037653. OCLC 9876467.
- Trowbridge, Francis Bacon (1908). The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. LCCN 09000552. OCLC 6175654. OL 7003948M.
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