Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts

ISBN-13: 9781108730365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 484 str.

Texas) Forret Jeff (Lamar University

Opis

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

Recenzje

'Williams' Gang is simply excellent and a must-read for anyone who wishes to know more about the history of the post-Revolutionary War slave trade in America, or the slave trade coming out of Washington, DC.' George W. Reid, The Journal of African American History

Spis treści

Introduction: the slave depot of Washington, DC; 1. An ambush; 2. The Yellow House; 3. Sale and transportation; 4. Mobile to New Orleans; 5. Legal troubles; 6. The Millington Bank; 7. State v. Williams; 8. Slave trading in 'hard times'; 9. Politics of the slave pen; 10. Brothers; 11. The Louisiana State Penitentiary; 12. Closure; 13. Perseverance; 14. Violet; Epilogue: the legal legacy of the domestic slave trade.