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Monroe Edwards
Monroe Edwards (1808 – January 27, 1847) was an American slave trader, forger and convicted criminal who was the subject of a famous trial in 1842. Originally from Kentucky, Edwards moved to New Orleans before settling in Texas. After his move, he smuggled slaves into Brazil in 1832, the money from which allowed him to purchase land in Texas. In 1836 he was again smuggling slaves, this time into Texas. After attempting to swindle his partner out of the profits of the venture, partly with forged documents, Edwards was forced to flee the Republic of Texas to the United States. He then tried to swindle money out of various abolitionists in the United States and the United Kingdom, partly with forged letters of introduction. He traveled to the United Kingdom, but his schemes were mainly unsuccessful and he returned to the United States in mid-1841.
Edwards' largest swindle involved forged letters from cotton brokers in New Orleans, which he used to secure bank drafts for large sums that he then cashed. His fabrications caught up with him and he was arrested and tried for the forgeries in June 1842. Convicted partly because of his good looks, and partly from unique misspellings in his fakes, Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison and died in 1847 while still incarcerated. Several sensationalistic accounts of his swindles and trial were published after the trial and his death, and he was mentioned in Herman Melville's work "Bartleby, the Scrivener".
==Early life==
Edwards was born in 1808 in Danville, Kentucky. His father was reported to be Amos Edwards, but the name of his mother is unknown, nor is it certain that his father was actually Amos. Nothing is known for sure of his childhood. As a grown man, he was considered very handsome, and usually dressed quite fashionably.〔Thompson "Edwards, Monroe" ''American National Biography Online''〕 Some accounts give him the title "Colonel".〔Barrows ''William M. Evarts'' pp. 21–23〕
Around 1822, Edwards was sent to New Orleans to learn business from a Mr. Morgan, a merchant there, but in 1823 Edwards' father moved to Galveston Island. By the late 1820s Morgan set up a trading post on San Jacinto Bay near Galveston. Some time after this, Edwards met a slave trader and joined his new acquaintance on a smuggling trip attempting to acquire slaves in Africa. This first effort ended when they were shipwrecked before reaching Africa, but a second attempt in 1832 successfully smuggled slaves into Brazil. Edwards invested the profits from this trip into land in Texas, establishing a plantation on the San Bernard River in present-day Brazoria County, Texas; he named his new home "Chenango".〔
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