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1 l PENSACOLIAN WHO WAS IN
> THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE
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Thrilling Story Told by F Klein Who Served on the American Brigantine Jeehossey in 1857 and 1858
BY BONNIE BURNHAM
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Actively engaged in the thick or
the African slave trade In the year
18578 shipping as carpenter on the
brigantine Jeehossy which at that
time was among the private vosseis
evened and operated for the real pur
pose of carrying I salable blacks from
Africa and other countries to the
United States where thev were quiel
jy sold and r rt f fn face vitn
conditions Interesting as they
were full of sensational detail is the
unique record of v tri s e of Pen
sao las oldest and most esteemed
citizens who after having finally
settled in this city has resided for
13 years in the land of his adoption
Mr Klein who after a remarkable
career which would put many of the
Modern novels to shame is spending
the evening time of his eventful life
pleasantly and peacefully at the cor
nier of Belmont and Spring streets
tills city
He has seen the world and has a
knowledge and understanding of Its
ways in time of war as well as1 peace
far beyond that of the average man
Among his other excellent traits
the old gentleman Is nothing if not
quaintly chivalrous and In the
shadowy little parlor the other day
ie talked long and entertainingly ot
his experience In the practice of
smuggling the negro In his wild I
state which when once bought from
traders along the foreign coasts who
dealt in the commodity of human
ilesh and blood was at oncd stored
a away and brought to America where
fcc was sold at a handsome profit
Shipped In 1857
After having learned the trade or
ship carpenter began Mr Klein
and having served my time In the
Prussian navy I west to Cardiff
England and shipped on an Ameri
can ship for Charleston South Caro
fjtoa I had not been in the city
long when I was offered good wages
as carpenter on the brigantine Tee
IhoBsy Captain Vincent bound for
the southwest coast of Africa I ac
cepted
We had hardly made the neces
sary arrangements when tne captain
cad every man aboard to the cabin
wHjare in a private talk he offered
them each the sum of SOO besides I
their monthly wages if they would
Assist in landing a cargo of slaves In
Charleston which was to be secured
> n the African coast
II was the last to be called
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When the plan on foot therefore
I was submitted to me and especially
when I became aware of the fact
that I had been the last man aboard
to be called I was insulted
It is against the law of the Jand
I said and refused outright to be
come a party in the transaction I
was given 12 hours to reconsider
Meanwhile the threatening aspect
of the men who knew and who also
knew that I knew or the proposition
in hand warned me that I had best
not back out
I returned to the captain I said
A carpenter is an officer aboard
a ship I am a carpenter and I have
been left until the last In view of
this I demand 51000 extra for my
services in this matter
It was readily granted
Receives First Order
After that there waa better un
derstanding among all aboard The
voyage continued and we had just
hove in sight of land when I re
ceived orders to cut tween deck
beams from lumber we had carried
aboard for that purpose I was told
to number them in order that they
might be placed In position at an
hours notice as we went from one
native settlement to another I
It was the captains plan to pur
sue the usual course of slave traders
which was to visit the towns along
the coast and to confer with the
French and Spanish dealers who
kept the blacks for sale
These nq roes who had been in
turn purchased from some tribe who
had recently been at war and who
followed the usual custom of selling
their prisoners to traders were kept
in long stockades along the coast
They were given almost anything to
eat watered like animals and kept
there for the inspection of foreign
buyers who would in turn take them
on to the United States to be sold 1
into slavery
The captain however was to ex
perience a slight change in his plans
Wild Blacks Take Possession
At the very first post where we
dropped anchor continued MX
Klein we were to get more than
we had bargained for
As soon as the Meehossy had been
sighted from the land three large
canoes each manned by 50 or more
wild blacks were seen rapidly ap
proaching us
They were nude excepting for the
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I belt arrangement they wore in which
I were thrust knives and other imple
ments of warfare Finahythey cam
up alongside making many peculiar
gesticulations The captain gave
them some rumS and they straight
way began clambering over the rail
Orders were quickly given not to al
low any more aboard but they grew
fierce and threatening when an at
tempt wa made to prevent them from
coming
It began to look as if the crew
was to be overwhelmed 4
Previous to this I had sharpened
some old cutlasses which with some
old revolvers were quickly distributed
among our men
The cook was ordered to heat as
much water as possible ana to scat
ter broken bottles on deck prepara
tory to a hand to hand encounter
with the visitors
The boiling water was to be
thrown on the bare bodies of the nc
groes should they become more
threatening and during the general
fistic encounter and scrambling about
which was bound to ensue according
to our calculations the burly black
fellows who of course wore no
shoes would be badly cut by the glass
a process which would retard their
progress in any onslaught which they
might plan
When the danger appeared at its
thicket and the crowd of blacks
were becoming more and more un
ruly a breeze suddenly sprang up
from the land and the captain saw
his chance
Quickly setting sail he caused the
three canoes belonging to the ne
groes to be cut adrift and them put
on full speed The Meehossy was
fairly flying out to sea and far in
the distance we could jst discern
the three empty canoes of the savages
as they bobed helplessly up aud
down in the water
We had gone perhaps a mile and
a half before the natives still on the
ship final saw what had happened
and that in allowing themselves to
be thus duped they had lost their
boatsThe
The sight of home rapidly slip
ping from view didnt appear to look
good to them and one by one tne
fierce appearing humans dove into
the water like rats swimming their
way to shore
This was probably the most excit
ing day of the entire voyage
Bargain for Slaves
That the good or bad ship Jee
hossy did finally come into direct
i comunicatlon with real slave traders
is further proved by the remainder of
the interesting narrative
The next day continued Mr
Klein we came to a little town call
ed Acra It was here that the cap
tain and supercargo went ashore ani
completed a bargain for a number ot
slaves which were to be taken aboard
I never knew how much the aver
age trader charged for his slaves
neither could I find out That gen
erally remained a secret with the cap
tain
After the deal wag closed the ea
being rough we decided to await a
calm before taking the negroes
aboard
That was to be a disastrous wait
for all hands The next day to our
surprise an American war vessel
came within speaking distance She
exchanged civilities with us leaving
almost immediately
Close on her trail came another
war vessel We had begun to be
somewhat suspicious and when she
proved to be an English manowar
we knew that our fears had not been
unfounded Her officers had proiJ
ably decided to ascertain the nature
of the business in which we were en
gaged
Finally a boat was lowered and
an officer came aboard He shoo
hands with the captain and super
cargo and without any investigation
whatever returned to his ship Some
one said that he and our captair
were Free Masons and that we har
nothirg to fear
But we were mistaken A second
officer suddenly made it his business
to pay us a visit and succeeded i
overhauling and disclosing everything
There were the iron bars with hand
cuffs attached iron grating for tfcf
hatches sacks of red bread and ric
with which we had intended to le
the negroes and also the betwee
deck beams which I had lately mad
and numbered
The captain made numerous ej
discs but to no avail Ve wer
taken aboard the manowar whos
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name we learned to be The Falcon
and kept under strict surveilance for
ten days There was not a man
among us however who failed to
keep mum and we were finally re
turned to our own vessel
You have taken us for thieves
said our captain to the Englishmen
and we will just wait around in these
waters until an American manowar
comes by and squares accounts for us
In reality however we hoped to
outstay the Britishers who still en
tertained serious suspicions regarding
lour movements and then take on 01110
cargo of slaves After two month j
waiting however e were forced to i
give up and nut for home without j
so much as a single black aboard
Hccsivcd No Money j
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civil war coiul hd broken whm
the savE iraJe had begun oin its
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j growing cancer that it was that the
II brigantine Toehohsy Jinzlly re wr
I ed to the port of Charleston on lwv
in the spring of 185S slit a very
I unfortunate financial venture
She had been beseiged at every
turn by continued ill fortune Her
crew received their monthly wage j
but the extra mosey which was tr 1
have been pon in case till trip Iud
been successful was of course with 1
held
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The captain had suffered must
He had made the trip iiractiMly 1
without remuneration for his pain
and his close approach to success did I
not tend to improve his mental atti
tude in the matter rf
The crew scattered Mr Klein I
went to New York and after sowing
several years of service finaiv came
to Florida and Iss been a resiJenf
of this city since the year 1S85
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The Journal that reminded The of Joe I
Lincolns characterization of Uncle
Daniel Hank
He says the other parlys foots
Cause thrv dont vote his way
He says the feebleminded schools
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Is where they ought ter stay
If he was law their mouths hed shut
Or blow them all ter smash
He says their platforms nawthin but
A great big mess of trash
Says I Djsr ever read it
Dan
You btt I aint says he
And when 1 do well 1
tell yon
Vfl let you know by gee
iSorr frs reckon more or less
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P SIt was not editorial
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I iasai for Tilt I have sen no paper
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promptu speakers in old college days
whose stammering efforts would likely
in the end turn up on both sHies or
the question Walter Wellnmns ar
ticles in the Chicago RecordHerald
have helped Bryan fully as much as
Taft Even the cartoonists seem to be
canned A sickly smile is about the
most they attempt to call forth
Where is Davenport to arouse the
spirit of 96
But why should Taft arouse any
enthusiasm One hours spontaneous
and vociferous screeching at the Chi
cago convention for Roosevelt by the
galleries and outsiders and twenty
minutes of artificial hurrahing Ion
Taft by the delegates primed for the
occasion This tells the story He is
not the peoples candidate Some are
afraid he will carry out Roosevelts
policies whatever they may be no
one knows and others are afraid he
will not but none know him very
well and fewer yet care to
This does not mean that he is not
a good man Good men are spotting
down the surface of the earth every
where If they were rare Taft might
he the peoples idol But it takes
more than goodness or ability or re
commendation of friends for leader
ship The first visit an aspirant for
lyceum honors pays to a Uceinn bu
reau he is likely to load up with a
ton or so of encomiums of press and
personal notices The fellow at the
desk will push them aside as so much
froth which tbc mostly are saying
hI dcnt care for this truck What
do the people say How often are you
called back to the same place
The people never called Taft if
they elect him it will be through the
inertis of the other party
It is probably true that Roosevelt
would have swept everything before
him had he consented to run Not
that he is a better man than Bryan
On the contrary he is neither as good
or as able to my thinking Many
men in public life have made mis
takes that terminated more disas
trously than those of Theodore Roose
velt but no one in memorys time
has made suoh unreasonable petulant
not to say impudent breaks His
treatment of old and honored officials
like General Miles and many others
in military and civil circles his re
peated endorsement and advancement
of friends like Paul Morton and
others found guilty of offenses ol
the law or breaches of public trust
his continued appointment of trust
employes to places of public honor
his unheard of discourtesy to the
writers of child and animal life his
headlong plunge into the Brownsville
affair usurping the rights of judge
and jury his peanut political manipu
lations to control New York or win
over the city of Cleveland his assum
ing the power to fashion and stamp
the coin of the country his public
and imperious discharge of an innocent
pilot on his waterway trip with the
governors and recently his butting
iI if we may so term it into the
discipline of West Point by attempt
ing to reinstate some expelled cadets
all these and many more grievous
mistakes of etiquette and assumption
of power have been his Often he
has had to retract and always the in
cidents have been humiliating
I hope Ill not be imprisoned for
lese majeste Yet there has been
so much in Roosevelt that the people
liked these hotheaded blunders have
hen largely overlooked But while
they like him they are in no wise
bound to like everyone he may choose
to force upon them It is unfortunate
when any one attempts to dictate who
his successor shall be
It remains now for the democrats to
make the most of the indifference and
Tukewarnrness of their opponents
I may be wrong but it seems as though
they do not realize their vantage
ground this year It is quite possible
they do not appreciate Bryan He is
a long way in advance of one wing of
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the party so fur perhaps that it mn
not reaize his gent leadership H T
it clean honest just and able A
conservative as Roosevelt and unlike
him is not a revolutionist No op
ponent has over been able to moec
him squarely before the people
Money has defeated him but not all
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even for a day Under the limelight
for fourteen years every leading paper
against him his own party contribn
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culed as few men have ever been ht
has never lost his poise always a gen
tleman always a friend of the people
dignified in speech affable in manner
magnetic in leadership Whether in
or out of the white house he is the
first citizen of the country
Where is John Temple Graves bfeln
to these clays May be he is prepar
ing some of those startling chautau
qua addresses I can see him and
his waiting audience It is a great
moment when the dignified manager
on chairman rises to Introduce ttm
well known and popular speaker
whose addresses have charmed and
swayed the multitudes The writer
remembers an occasion when the chair
man after exhausing most of the
adjectives began fishing for the
name It was on a card in some ol
his pockets but he relied on mem
ory I now take great pleasure in
introducing the renowned vest
pocket one side then the other in
side coat pocket outside coat pocket
hip pockets no card to be found The
audience snickered and tho renown
ed proceeded to oharm etc without
a name
I can see him turn to Mr GraTes
Excuse me but what is your full
name That is one method to pur
sue when the whole name is a blank
ilr John Temple Graves will pro
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Let rue see continues the chair
man in a whisper Let me see
You are running forr
Vicepresident sheopishly
Certainly vyiepresldent of course
but excuse me I am so busy but
but what party
John Temple aside Confound it
the Willie Hearst party
Why yes of course of course
Im afraid be Is aick sick of his
job
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