The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage
By John Harris
Read by Paul Heitsch
Unabridged
Format :
Library CD (In Stock)
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781665197977
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ISBN: 9781665197960
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ISBN: 9781665197984
Runtime: | 7.72 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United StatesLong after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, 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 200,000 African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the US government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867.
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
Runtime: | 7.72 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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