Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Report from the Acting Secretary of State, in Compliance with a Resolution Requesting the President of the United States to Lay Before the Senate. The Proof of Any Traffic Carried on in...

Pamphlet, 8vo, removed, dbd, 8 pp. Disbound, foxing and aging throughout; else about very good. James Monroe was the acting Secretary of State that presented the case before Congress. Munroe indicated, based on testimony of a Captain Williams, who was a prisoner of war of the British in the Bahamas, Negroes taken from the United States were being sold there. The brief report suggests the Negroes were taken from Virginia, and were being sold in the Bahamas for considerable sums.