Letter from James F. McKee in Wilmington, North Carolina, to the police of Mobile, Alabama.
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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
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In the letter McKee warns the men of a new slave in Mobile who had been banished from North Carolina because of "seditious conduct" the year before: "While acting as Magistrate of Police last August my attention...was called to the circulation of the infamous Walker pamphlet among our negroes, and on investigation traced the book to the above named negro Jacob Cowan, who acknowledged that he had received 20 of said pamphlets from the author for the purpose of being distributed among the slaves of this place." He also mentions seven other slaves in Wilmington who are to be executed for conspiracy; McKee attributes their rebellious actions to the Walker pamphlet.
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1831 November 3 1831 11 03
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