A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States. Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still...

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1. Verfasser:	Harris, John (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2020]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1899 Sklavenhandel New York > Staat Slave trade / New York (State) / New York / History / 19th century Slave trade / United States / History / 19th century Slavery / New York (State) / New York / History / 19th century Slavery / United States / History / 19th century Slave ships / Atlantic Ocean Slave ships Slave trade Slavery Atlantic Ocean New York (State) / New York United States 1800-1899 History
Zusammenfassung:	A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States. Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make Lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around two hundred thousand African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the U.S. government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867
Beschreibung:	ix, 300 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits
ISBN:	9780300247336