Henry Rootes Jackson was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He owned 11 slaves in 1860.
Henry R. Jackson
Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of enslaved people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia, on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. Clotilda, which transported 110 people from Dahomey in 1860, is the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the US.
Wanderer in U.S. Navy service during the American Civil War (1861–1865), after being used once in the slave trade and for mercantile trade.
Ward Lee, Tucker Henderson, and Romeo—born Cilucängy, Pucka Gaeta, and Tahro in the Congo River basin, photographed 1908
Wanderer survivors Tom Johnson, Katie Noble, Uster Williams, Lucy Lanham, photographed 1908
Sign on Jekyll Island, side 1