Mendi (barque)
Mendi was a barque. Like most ships serving Liberia, it was black-owned, in this case by J. D. Johnson, Turpin, and Dunbar.[1] Available documentation shows that at least between 1856[2] and 1859, it sailed regularly, carrying Black passengers and exported goods, between New York and Monrovia, Liberia.[3] In a sailing of 1856 the ship carried 6 cabin passengers, including two ministers and two medical students, and 5 steerage passengers.[2]
A distinguished passenger was
Chatham, Ontario; in fact he was elected its president.[4]
Footnotes
- Portal to Texas History.
- ^ a b "Departure of the Barque Mendi". African Repository. Vol. 32, no. 8. August 1856. p. 229.
- ^ ISBN 0-306-80961-3.
- ^ Anderson, Osborne Perry (1861). . . Boston. p. – via Wikisource.
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