Stuart covers the following topics: the beginning of illegal slave trading in Galveston as initiated by privateers, smuggling operations by Texas plantation owners in the 1830s, the denouncement of illegal smuggling by the Republic of Texas…
Letter from Thomas F. McKinney in Velasco, Texas, regarding supplies needed for the business, and special ordered for Jared and Leonard Groce and W.H. Wharton.
E.H. Cushing, editor for Houston's Weekly Telegraph newspaper, urges readers to send enslaved laborers to Galveston to assist in building fortifications.