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Author:

Harris, John (Professor of history), author.

Title:

The Last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage / John Harris.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

ix, 300 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Subject:

Slave trade--New York--New York--History--19th century.
Slave trade--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--New York--New York--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
Slave ships--Atlantic Ocean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the midcentury moment -- The final triangle takes shape -- Slave traders at work -- Aboard an illegal American slaver -- Ring of spies -- American politics and American suppression -- Epilogue: Atlantic reverberations

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0300261497
9780300261493
0300247338
9780300247336

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1146553644

LCCN:

2020935692

Locations:

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)