L'OURAGAN
BRICK NEGRIER - FRENCH - 1830
In spite of the official abolition of slavery by the Vienne
treaty of 1815, the trade of Negroes continued until the middle
of the 19th Century into the French colonies. The slave dealers
had to imagine ships capable of escaping from the watch-ships.
The Ouragan was one of these ships, which according to its
thin shape and its jab-joint hull, could be both swift and
easy to handle, and became one of the swiftest carrier of
slaves in the 19th century.
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