Recaptured Africans : surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade / Sharla M. Fett.

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"In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the so...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fett, Sharla M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > United States > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Slave trade.
Enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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