Complaint Alleging Illegal Slave Trade
GA, TX, Cuba
March 2, 1867
Source: NARA Microfilm M1900: Records of
the Field Offices for the State of Alabama,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands, 1865-1872
Transcribed by Toni Carrier


Roll 13
Target 3
Subordinate Field Offices
Greenville, AL
Register of Complaints
Volume 130: Feb. 3, 1867-Dec 1868

March 2, 1867:

     A.F. Stoughton (Houghton?), formerly of the Federal Army, states
that while in Remedios, Cuba he saw a large number of negroes brought
and sold, that he conversed with them and found that several of them
came from Augusta Georgia and others from other cities in the Southern
States and that he afterwards saw the man in charge of the negroes in
Mobile with other negroes under his control, that were sold. The negroes
stated they were hired to go to Texas as laborers, but were shipped from
some port in Texas to go to another and landed in Cuba.
     Referred the case to Major General Sawyne, Asst Commissioner 
Montgomery