19. Wilburn Hall, “Capture of the Slave Ship ‘Cora.’ The Last Slaver Taken by the United States,” Century (May 1894): 115-29.


Account of the seizure of a slave ship by the U.S.S. Constellation off the coast of African during the summer of 1860. The article is illustrated with an engraving of the chase by W. Taber and six pen and ink drawings by A. Castagne, two of which are stunning.