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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book

By Jim Jordan

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About the book

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

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9780820351964

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published year

2018

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1

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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book

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Hardcover

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