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The slave-trader's letter-book : Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and other tales of the African slave trade /

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 landin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jordan, Jim (Historian) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Series:Uncivil wars.
Subjects:
Lamar, Charles, > 1824-1865.
Wanderer (Schooner)
Slave traders > United States.
Slave traders > United States > Correspondence.
Slave trade > United States > History.
Slave ships.
United States > Race relations > History.

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Call Number: E438 .J67 2018
 
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