Williams' Gang A Notorious Slave Trader and His Human Cargo |
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| Author:
| Forret, Jeff |
| ISBN: | 978-1-108-49303-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2020 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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Williams' Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors' files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data, Jeff Forret examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and Southern jurisprudence.
Williams' Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors' files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data, Jeff Forret examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and Southern jurisprudence.