Published in 1967, "The Slave Ship Wanderer" details the journey of the elegant yacht that was used to secretly land a cargo of 400 enslaved Africans off the coast of Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1859. It was the last successful large-scale importation of slaves into the United States, and it was done in defiance of a federal law. The Wanderer's crew had out-run ships of both the British and American Navies and the creators of the plot went on to evade federal marshals as they attempted to sell the slaves throughout the South.
Tom Henderson Wells documents the story behind the prominent...
Published in 1967, "The Slave Ship Wanderer" details the journey of the elegant yacht that was used to secretly land a cargo of 400 enslaved Africa...
