The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage / John Harris.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, John (Professor of history) (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Slave trade > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.
Slave ships > Atlantic Ocean.
Slave ships.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Atlantic Ocean.
New York (State) > New York.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 300 : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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