The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020].
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ix, 300 : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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Community College of Aurora - CentreTech - BOOKS
F 128.44 .H37 2020
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F 128.44 .H37 2020
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Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020].
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Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Harris, J. (2020). The last slave ships: New York and the end of the middle passage . Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harris, John. 2020. The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harris, John. The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage Yale University Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Harris, John. The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage Yale University Press, 2020.
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