"The Brig was Bottom Up" - The New York Tribune

She had nearly 300 slaves on board; They were being taken to Mexico to work at starvation wages; All supposed to be lost

Report: "Blackbirding" - The Slave System's Just-as-Evil Twin?

Tags: blackbirding, San Francisco

San Francisco, Nov. 20 - In a brig dispatch from Manzanillo comes news of the wreck of the brig Tahiti, with every soul on her, 270 South Sea slaves, missing. This wreck is a noteworthy one, as it marks the failure of the first extensive attempt at "black-birding" on the Pacific Coast.

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New York Tribune article titled, "The Brig was Bottom Up."