In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the UnionPennsylvania State University Press, 2001 - 516 páginas In the Hands of Strangers is a collection of sixty-seven documents by writers and witnesses from the past, both black and white, that offer perspectives on the trade and movement of slaves. Many elucidate the long-standing discord between North and South over the issue of slavery. Documents are divided into three parts that cover the African slave trade, the internal U.S. slave trade, and the series of conflicts and crises that led to the Civil War. They cover a variety of topics including the forced transport of slaves throughout East Coast and Gulf Coast states, buying and selling of slaves, increasingly contentious debates over the legitimacy of slavery, and effects of the breakup of families. The volume concludes with a brilliant essay by Frederick Douglass that asks the question: "What shall be done with the Negro?" |
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... American President not to make the United States a party to any convention on the subject of the slave- trade , “ Has been the means of inducing American citizens to build and fit in their ports vessels only calculated for piracy , or ...
... American PAPERS AND THE AMERI- CAN FLAG . In the spring of 1839 , three American slavers were captured by British cruisers , and carried into Sierra Leone . They were the Clara , Wyoming , and Eagle , and all under AMERICAN captains ...
... American flag , U.S. citizens offered a wide variety of advantages and services to slave traders . These included swift Baltimore clippers with American crews , shipment to Africa of such necessities as water casks and food for slaves ...
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The African Slave Trade Legal and Illegal | 1 |
The Internal Slave Trade of the United States | 111 |
Conflict and Crisis of the Union on the Road to Civil | 303 |
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