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The Last Slave Ships
- Author
- John Harris
- Narrator
- Paul Heitsch
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 24 November 2020
- Run Time
- 7 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around 200,000 African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the US government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867.
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Details
- Author
- John Harris
- Narrator
- Paul Heitsch
- Duration
- 7 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 November 2020
- ISBN
- 9781705244906
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- History, History of the Americas, Society and culture: general, Slavery and abolition of slavery, History of the Americas, Maritime history
Synopsis
A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United StatesLong after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around 200,000 African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the US government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867.
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