Charleston Courier. Vol. 2, No. 94. Charleston, South Carolina: A.S. Willington, Loring Andrews, 21 April 1804. 4 pages, folio, disbound, 11 7/8 x 19 1/4 in. 

An 1804 newspaper from Charleston, South Carolina. Reporting on the busy port city, the newspaper features extensive notices for the cargoes of incoming ships. Notably, the last page includes an advertisement published by William Macloud for the arrival of enslaved Africans: "For Sale, 357 prime Angola Negroes, On board the ship Anna, at Vanderhorst's wharf - to commence on Wednesday the 18th April." Just four years later, Congress abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808.

The front page also includes an article reprinted from the Connecticut Herald, lamenting the brewing wars in Europe: "No person of sense can reflect on the present aspect of the eastern continent without feeling emotions of astonishment, horror, and regret...such vast military preparations, such formidable armaments, attended with such portentous menaces, and likely to produce such tremendous calamities, were never before exhibited." The rest of the paper contains further news from the European continent as well as distant colonies. 

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