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The United States Navy, Slave-Trade Suppression, and State Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2021

DAVID F. ERICSON
DAVID F. ERICSON*
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Cleveland State University
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Abstract

The mission of the United States Navy expanded significantly because of the presence of the institution of racial slavery on American soil. Most important, both proslavery and antislavery forces favored, for very different reasons, a substantial naval buildup in the late 1850s. The navy had, however, long been engaged in securing the nation’s borders against slave smuggling, an activity that also seemed to have broad support at the time. Finally, somewhat more controversially, the navy had been associated with the American Colonization Society’s Liberian enterprise from its very inception, deciding to deploy vessels to Africa in an otherwise unimaginable time frame. The relationship between the presence of slavery and the pre–Civil War activities of the navy is a largely untold—or, at best, half-told—story of American state development.

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U.S. Navyslaveryslave tradeAfrican colonizationLiberiastate development
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 2021 , pp. 231 - 255
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25. See H. R. Doc. No. 168, 19th Cong., 1st sess., 1826, 87.

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32. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 238–39 (Appendix E).

33. See Duncan J. Macleod, Slavery, Race and the American Revolution (Cambridge, 1974), 36–37; Duncan Rice, The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery (New York, 1975), 227–28; Robinson, Slavery in American Politics, 224; George William Van Cleve, A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic (Chicago, 2010), 28.

34. See Statutes at Large III (1819): 532–34.

35. See Annual Reports of the American Colonization Society (1818–1910; rpt., New York, 1969), 4 (1821): 27–28; H. Doc. No. 11, 16th Cong., 1st sess., 1819.

36. See H. Rep. No. 101, 19th Cong., 2nd sess., 1827.

37. See ACS, Annual Reports, 4 (1821): 7–13; Staudenraus, African Colonization, 59–62.

38. See ACS, Annual Reports, 5 (1822): 15; Staudenraus, African Colonization, 62.

39. See ACS, Annual Reports, 5 (1822): 8–17, 64–66; Staudenraus, African Colonization, 63–65.

40. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 239 (Appendix E).

41. See Du Bois, African Slave-Trade, 291 (Appendix C).

42. See 26 F. Cas. 832 (C.C.D. Mass. 1822; No. 15551); John T. Noonan, Jr., The Antelope: The Ordeal of the Recaptured Africans in the Administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams (Berkeley, 1977), 69–74.

43. See Noonan, The Antelope, 76–77; S. Doc. No. 3, 20th Cong., 1st sess., 1827, 16–17.

44. See ACS, Annual Reports, 6 (1823): 25; 7 (1824): 12, 26–27; 8 (1825): 32; 9 (1826): 50; 10 (1827): 53; 11 (1828): 38; “Letter from Treasury Department, 4th Auditor’s Office, in response to Senate Resolution of February 25, 1843,” December 1, 1843; Record Group 45; National Archives; S. Doc. 3, 20th Cong., 1st sess., 1827, 10–29; S. Doc. No. 1, 20th Cong., 2nd sess., 1828, 139–40.

45. See ACS, Annual Reports 7 (1824): 19–20; Staudenraus, African Colonization, 89–90.

46. See ACS, Annual Reports 7 (1824): 26–27; H. Doc. No. 193, 20th Cong., 1st sess. (1828), 7, 11.

47. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 254–56 (Appendix H).

48. See ACS, Annual Reports 6 (1823): 59.

49. See ACS, Annual Reports 13 (1830): 13.

50. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 239 (Appendix E).

51. See H. R. Doc. No. 54, 21st Cong., 2nd sess., 1831, 3–4. When the Grampus arrived to aid the Kremlin, the Fenix was on the far side of the ship, shielded from view.

52. See “Letter from Treasury Department,” National Archives.

53. All estimates of American slave-trade expenditures and seizures are the author’s; available upon request. For the British estimates, see David Eltis, Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York, 1987), 92 (Table 2), 99 (Table 4). The time spans do not quite match because Eltis aggregated British slave-ship seizures in five-year intervals.

54. See Matthew E. Mason, “The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators: Great Britain, the United States, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 59, no. 3 (July 2002): 671.

55. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 107–08; ACS, Annual Reports, 24 (1840): 7.

56. See Statutes at Large VIII (1842): 576.

57. See S. Ex. Doc. No. 20, 27th Cong., 3rd sess., 1843.

58. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 233 (Appendix D); Howard, American Slavers, 239 (Appendix E).

59. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 232–37 (Appendix D); S. Ex. Doc. No. 39, 35th Cong., 1st sess., 1858, 16.

60. See S. Ex. Doc. No. 40, 31st Cong., 1st sess., 1850, 3.

61. In 1843, the federal government shifted to a July 1–June 30 fiscal year.

62. See Eltis, Economic Growth, 99 (Table 4); Howard, American Slavers, 214–23 (Appendix A). Harmon did not distinguish ship seizures in terms of those with and without Africans aboard but his figures for the 1843–1859 seizure totals of the respective African squadrons were 24 (US) and 574 (GB). See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 206 (Table 2).

63. Cf. ACS, Annual Reports, 26 (1843): 28–30; George E. Brooke, “The Role of the US Navy in the Suppression of the African Slave Trade,” American Neptune 21, no. 2 (January 1961): 33; Donald L. Canney, Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842–1861 (Washington, 2006), 57–58, 226–27; Du Bois, African Slave–Trade, 185–86; Fehrenbacher, Slaveholding Republic, 173; Sharla M. Fett, Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slaver Trade (Chapel Hill, 2017), 22; Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 2–3; Howard, American Slavers, 13, 41, 67–68; Karp, Southern Empire, 52–53; David F. Long, Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic Activities of U.S. Naval Officers, 1798–1883 (Annapolis, 1988), 320; Ted Maris-Wolf, “‘Of Blood and Treasure’: Recaptive Africans and the Politics of Slave Trade Suppression,” Journal of Civil War Era 4, no. 1 (March 2014): 57–58.

64. See H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 104, 35th Cong., 2nd sess., 1859, 3.

65. See H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 104, 35th Cong., 2nd sess., 1859, 7–8, 11.

66. See New American State Papers: Explorations and Surveys 9: 133 (“M. C. Perry to [British Admiral] John Foote Esq.,” 4 March 1844).

67. See New American State Papers: Explorations and Surveys 9: 160 (“M. C. Perry to Hon. Secretary of the Navy,” 18 May 1844).

68. See House Journal, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., 13 April 1854, 634; House Journal, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., 31 July 1854, 1241.

69. Prior to the Buchanan administration, seven of the African Squadron’s nine navy secretaries were from Southern states. On the Southern dominance of the navy during this time, see Karp, Southern Empire, 202–8; Langley, Harold D., Social Reform in the United States Navy, 1798–1862 (Urbana, 1967), 30;Google Scholar Long, Gold Braid, 314; Schroeder, John H., Shaping a Maritime Empire: The Commercial and Diplomatic Role of the American Navy, 1828–1861 (Westport, CT, 1985), 58–59, 187–88.Google Scholar

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71. See Brandon Mills, “‘The United States of Africa’: Liberian Independence and the Contested Meaning of a Black Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 34, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 105; Eugene S. Van Sickle, “Reluctant Imperialists: The U.S. Navy and Liberia, 1819–1845,” Journal of the Early Republic 31, no. 4 (Spring 2011): 132–34.

72. See Maris-Wolf, “Blood and Treasure,” 76.

73. See [James Buchanan], Mr. Buchanan’s Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion (New York: D. Appleton, 1866), 261–62; S. Ex. Doc. No. 39, 35th Cong., 1st sess., 1858.

74. See S. Rep. No. 195, 34th Cong., 1st sess., 1856.

75. See House Journal, 34th Cong., 3rd sess., 15 December 1856, 105–6. In analyzing this vote, I classified all fifteen slave states as Southern states.

76. See Manisha Sinha, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (Chapel Hill, 2000), 174–75; Takaki, Pro-Slavery Crusade, 224.

77. For the multiple motives behind Buchanan’s decision, see Robert Ralph Davis Jr., “James Buchanan and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1858–1861,” Pennsylvania History 33, no. 4 (October 1966): 457–59; Fett, Recaptured Africans, 22–23; Maris-Wolf, “Blood and Treasure,” 54–55; Karen Fisher Younger, “Liberia and the Last Slave Ships,” Civil War History 54, no. 4 (December 2008): 431–32.

78. See Davis, “Buchanan and the Slave Trade,” 452; Fett, Recaptured Africans, 22; Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 140, 192, 236–37 (Appendix D); Howard, American Slavers, 59, 240 (Appendix E); Maris-Wolf, “Blood and Treasure,” 59.

79. See Barton J. Bernstein, “Southern Politics and Attempts to Reopen the African Slave trade.” Journal of Negro History 51, no. 1 (January 1966): 25–30; Leonardo Marques, The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas (New Haven, 2016), 228–30; Sinha, Counterrevolution, 142, 145; Takaki, Pro-Slavery Crusade, 117–21.

80. See Congressional Globe, 34th Cong., 3rd sess., 21 February 1856, 366 (Appendix).

81. See House Journal, 34th Cong., 3rd sess., 15 December 1856, 109–10. In analyzing this vote, I classified Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri as upper-South states; South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas as lower-South states.

82. See Andrew H. Foote, Africa and the American Flag (New York: D. Appleton, 1854), 359–61, 383–84.

83. See Foote, American Flag, 384.

84. See H. Ex. Doc. No. 1, 33rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1854, 387

85. See Karp, Southern Empire, 197; Buchanan’s Administration, 279; William P. MacKinnon, “Hammering Utah, Squeezing Mexico, and Coveting Cuba: James Buchanan’s White House Intrigues,” Utah Historical Quarterly 80, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 132–51; Maris-Wolf, “Blood and Treasure,” 60.

86. Beside Karp’s work, see Robert E. Bonner, Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood (New York, 2009); Matthew Pratt Guterl, American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (Cambridge, MA, 2008); Walter Johnson, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Cambridge, MA, 2013); David C. Keehn, Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War (Baton Rouge, 2013); Robert E. May, The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854–1861 (Baton Rouge, 1973).

87. See Howard, American Slavers, 218, 223 (Appendix A).

88. See Fehrenbacher, Slaveholding Republic, 198; Howard, American Slavers, 224–35 (Appendix B); Soodalter, Hanging Captain, 9. A naval vessel had originally taken Townsend to Boston, where a conviction would have been more likely, but US Commissioner Edward G. Loring ruled he should be tried in the judicial district closest to the location of his alleged offense. See Sinha, Counterrevolution, 161.

89. See Harmon, “Suppression and Protest,” 206, Table 2; Howard, American Slavers, 220–23 (Appendix A).

90. See Statutes at Large XII (1860–1861): 21, 40–41, 132, 219.

91. See Historical Statistics, Table Ea636–643.

92. See Eltis, Economic Growth, 92–93 (Table 2); B. R. Mitchell, Abstract of British Historical Statistics (London, 1988), 587–88 (Public Finance 4); B. R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750–1993 (New York, 2007), 911–13 (Table G5). Because of the way Eltis aggregated the British data, I could not compare the number of British and American seizures of slave-laden ships during these two years.

93. See Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 84, 142, 199; Howard, American Slavers, 59.

94. See H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 57, 37th Cong., 2nd sess., 1862.

95. Cf. Bruce W. Hetherington and Peter J. Kower, “A Reexamination of Lebergott’s Paradox about Blockade Running during the American Civil War,” Journal of Economic History 69, no. 2 (June 2009): 528–32; Stanley Lebergott, “Through the Blockade: The Profitability and Extent of Cotton Smuggling, 1861–1865,” Journal of Economic History 41, no. 4 (December 1981): 867–88; William N. Still Jr., “A Naval Sieve: The Union Blockade in the Civil War,” Naval War College Review 36, no. 3 (May–June 1983): 38–45; David G. Surdam, “The Union Navy’s Blockade Reconsidered,” Naval War College Review 51, no. 4 (Autumn 1998): 85–107.

96. On the distinction between state-centered and society-centered models of state development, see Theda Skocpol, “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research,” in Bringing the State Back In, 4–6.

97. See Pamela L. Baker, “The Washington National Road Bill and the Struggle to Adopt a Federal System of Internal Improvement,” Journal of the Early Republic 22, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 437–64; John Lauritz Larson, Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States (Chapel Hill, 2001); Stephen Minicucci, “Internal Improvements and the Union, 1790–1860,” Studies in American Political Development 18, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 165–80; Daniel M. Mulcare, “Restricted Authority: Slavery Politics, Internal Improvements, and the Limitation of National Administrative Capacity,” Political Research Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 2008): 671–85.

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99. See H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 7, 36th Cong., 3rd sess., 1860, 632–36; Davis, “Buchanan and the Slave Trade,” 450; Robert Ralph Davis Jr., “Buchanan Espionage: A Report on Illegal Slave Trading in the South in 1859,” Journal of Southern History 37, no. 2 (May 1971): 271–78; Howard, American Slavers, 147–54; Tom Henderson Wells, The Slave Ship Wanderer (Athens, 1967), 7.

100. See Van Sickle, “Reluctant Imperialists,” 118–29.

101. Harmon, “Suppress and Protest,” 237 (Appendix D); Historical Statistics, Tables Ea636–643, Ed26–47; Paul H. Silverstone, The Sailing Navy, 1775–1854 (Annapolis, 2001), 40, 42–44, 63, 75; Paul H. Silverstone, Civil War Navies, 1855–1883 (Annapolis, 2001), 15, 22, 45–46.

102. See Stephen Tucker, ed., The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia (2 vols.; Santa Barbara, 2011), 132–33, 195–97, 611.

103. See Sands, From Reefer to Rear-Admiral, 253.