| Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States After 1808 Contributor(s): Obadele-Starks, Ernest (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557288585 ISBN-13: 9781557288585 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: In 1891 a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: "Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine." One law in particular he was referring to was the Abolition Act of 1808. It was specifically passed to end the foreign slave trade. However, as Ernest Obadele-Starks shows, thanks to profiteering smugglers like the Lafitte brothers and the Bowie brothers, the slave trade persisted throughout the south for a number of years after the law was passed. Freebooters and Smugglers examines the tactics and strategies that the adherents of the foreign slave trade used to challenge the law. It reassesses the role that Americans played in the continuation of foreign slave transshipments into the country right up to the Civil War, shedding light on an important topic that has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the slave trade. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Slavery - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 973.71 |
| LCCN: 2007030918 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.39" W x 9.1" (1.23 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1891 a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine. One law in particular he was referring to was the Abolition Act of 1808. It was specifically passed to end the foreign slave trade. However, as Ernest Obadele-Starks shows, thanks to profiteering smugglers like the Lafitte brothers and the Bowie brothers, the slave trade persisted throughout the south for a number of years after the law was passed. Freebooters and Smugglers examines the tactics and strategies that the adherents of the foreign slave trade used to challenge the law. It reassesses the role that Americans played in the continuation of foreign slave transshipments into the country right up to the Civil War, shedding light on an important topic that has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the slave trade. " |