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The ''Black Warrior'' affair was an 1854 incident touching trade and sovereignty between
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and her American possessions and the
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. ''Black Warrior'', a ship in the American coastwise trade, touched at
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on February 28, 1854, on her eighteenth voyage to
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. In technical conformity with law, but contrary to informal agreements, Cuban authorities demanded a cargo manifest. After a refusal, they seized and held the ship and cargo. The ship and cargo were restored to her owners on payment of a $6,000 fine, which was eventually remitted. The controversy led to active discussions in the
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and called forth able papers by Secretary of State
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. However, the tactics of
Pierre Soulé Pierre Soulé (August 31, 1801March 26, 1870) was a French-American attorney, politician, and diplomat in the mid-19th century. Serving as a U.S. senator from Louisiana from 1849 to 1853, he was nominated that year as U.S. Minister to Spain, a p ...
, American minister to Spain, temporarily threatened war. Linked somewhat with the Ostend Manifesto, the issue remained unresolved until August 1855, when Spain paid an indemnity of $53,000.Henry Lorenzo Janes, "The Black Warrior Affair". ''American Historical Review'', 12: 2 (January 1907), 280-98.


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*''Dictionary of American History'' by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940 {{ship-stub History of the foreign relations of the United States 1854 in the United States 1855 in the United States Spain–United States relations