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  1. Governor Adams of South Carolina Proposes Changing Laws Regarding Colored Seamen at Ports
    date November 27, 1855map LEXINGTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Slavery

    In 1855 there still existed a law in South Carolina that allowed for the imprisonment of colored seamen who arrived at their ports. This act was causing tensions with the British vessels that landed in South Carolina, but then lost seaman to the jails. In February 1855, the new Governor of South Carolina visited Charleston and was asked by Robert Bunch to change the Negro Seamen Acts in South Carolina....