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Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts Forret, Jeff (Lamar University, Texas)
Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts
Forret, Jeff (Lamar University, Texas)
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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