Recaptured africans : surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U. S. Navy seized roughly 2, 000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the s...

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Main Author: Fett, Sharla M.
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
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