What the records say
- When
- 31 Oct 1837
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 30.59° N, 91.29° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Steamboat Monmouth disaster.
Summary
The steamboat Monmouth disaster on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge kills over 300 Muscogee and Black slaves who are being transported to the Indian Territory.
Steamboat Monmouth disaster
300+ Muscogee killed, 1837
The steamboat Monmouth disaster of October 31, 1837, killed approximately 311 Muscogee people who were being forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland in the southern United States to the Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. The deaths were the result of a nighttime boat collision on the Mississippi River just north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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