Freebooters and smugglers : the foreign slave trade in the United States after 1808 / by Ernest Obadele-Starks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obadele-Starks, Ernest, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pirates--United States--History--19th century.

Pirates.

Slave trade--Africa--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--United States--History--19th century.

Slave traders--United States--History--19th century.

Slave traders.

Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century.

Smugglers--United States--History--19th century.

Smugglers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Ernest Obadele-Starks holds a joint appointment as an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University-College Station and Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is the author of Black Unionism in the Industrial South and has written several articles examining various political and social aspects of the African American diaspora. He is currently working on a comparative study of free black settlements in Canada, the United States, and Mexico from 1849 to 1867.</div>

Contents:

Contents; Photographs and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "A View of Opening a Trade"; 2. "A Particular Kind of Force"; 3. "Turbulent and Bad Men"; 4. "Difficult to Repress"; 5. "A Great Frontier Movement"; 6. "No Argument Could Be Made"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-250) and index.

ISBN:

1-61075-164-7

OCLC:

654395022