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The American Slave-Trade - An Account of its Origin, Growth and Suppression

The American Slave-Trade - An Account of its Origin, Growth and Suppression

John R. Spears / John RSpears

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Read & Co. History
Año de edición:
2008
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Historia
ISBN:
9781409779339
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“The American Slave-Trade” is a 1900 work by John R. Spears that examines in great detail the origin, growth, and ending of the slave trade from its very beginning in 1619 to the hanging of the last slaver in 1862. Contents include: “The Trade in the Earliest Days”, “Old-time Slaver Captains and Their Ships”, “When Voyages Went Awry”, “The Slaver and her Outfit”, “On the Slave Coast”, “The Middle Passage”, “The Slavers’ Profit”, “Slaver Legislation in the American Colonies”, “The Early Work for Extirpation”, etc. John Randolph Spears (1850–1936) was an American journalist and author. Other notable works by this author include: “The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn” (1895), “The Port of Missing Ships and Other Stories of the Sea” (1896), and “The History of Our Navy from its Origin to the Present Day” (1897-1899). Read & Co. History is republishing this historic work now in a new addition complete with the original text and artwork and introductory poems by Thomas Campbell, Sidney Lanier and Coleridge.

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