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In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the path to civil war.In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar's letters from the 1850s, re...Show more
Book details
ISBN
9780820351964
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Published year
2018
Language
Edition
1
Original title
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book
Format
Hardcover
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