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The Slave Ship Wanderer
Language: en
Pages: 120
Authors: Tom Henderson Wells
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Published in 1967, The Slave Ship Wanderer details the journey of the elegant yacht that was used to secretly land a cargo of 400 enslaved Africans off the coas
The Wanderer
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Erik Calonius
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-05 - Publisher: Macmillan

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On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded a cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Leslie Maria Harris
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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A richly illustrated, accessibly written book with a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to th
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book
Language: en
Pages: 479
Authors: Jim Jordan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War. In 1858 Savannah businessman
Flush Times and Fever Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 426
Authors: Joshua D. Rothman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the “Arkansas morass” in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two