The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage / John Harris.
Harris, John, author.
2020
F128.44 .H37 2020
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Title The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage / John Harris.
Author Harris, John, author.
ISBN 9780300256024 (electronic book)
0300256027 (electronic book)
9780300247336
0300247338
DOI https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300256024
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.12987/9780300256024 doi
Call Number F128.44 .H37 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 974.7/103
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION. The Midcentury Moment
ONE. The Final Triangle Takes Shape
TWO. Slave Traders at Work
THREE. Aboard an Illegal American Slaver
FOUR. Ring of Spies
FIVE. American Politics and American Suppression
EPILOGUE. Atlantic Reverberations
Notes
Index

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