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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 l...

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Main Author: Jordan, Jim (Historian) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Series:Uncivil wars.
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xiv, 327 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
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