Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts - Forret, Jeff (Lamar University, Texas) - Books - Cambridge University Press - 9781108493031 - January 16, 2020
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Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts


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Williams' Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors' files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data, Jeff Forret examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and Southern jurisprudence.


450 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Tables, black and white; 5 Maps; 1 Halftones, black and w

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 16, 2020
ISBN13 9781108493031
Publishers Cambridge University Press
Pages 482
Dimensions 162 × 237 × 31 mm   ·   812 g
Language English  

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