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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Explores the true story of the ship, Whydah, which began its sailing life as a slave trade ship in 1716 piloted by Captain Prince, then was overtaken by the pirate Black Sam Bellamy and used as his flagship. The Whydah then sank off the coast of Cape Cod with all its treasure, but its ruins were found again in 1984 and became a source of wealth and great information about the history of pirates.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built to survive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately,...
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Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describing their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town....
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
A historical account of the Atlantic slave trade, beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions in the 1400s, and ending in Cuba and Brazil twenty-five years after the American Civil War; discussing the economic impact of the slave trade, and examining the reasons why African kings participated in the enslavement of their people.
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Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves....
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Gods of Gotham volume 2
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In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.
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Pub. Date
c2008
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This book describes the Atlantic slave trade, from the late 1400s to the mid-1800s, discussing the triangular trade route, the active role of Africans in selling other Africans, the dreaded middle passage, the destinations of the enslaved, and the slave trade's grim legacy.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States. Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after...
Pub. Date
1991
Description
For review see: Roderick A. McDonald, in The economic historic review : a journal of economic and social history, vol. 46, no. 2 (May 1993); p. 423-424. - Hiliary Beckles, in Slavery and Abolition : a journal of slave and post-slave studies, vol. 14, nr. 2 (August 1993); p. 128-129. - The essays in this book (e.g. by Pieter Emmer) describes e.g. the transfer of slavery from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the economics bordering...
36) Jade star
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Series
Star quartet volume 4
Description
"Saint first meets Juliana DuPres on the island of Maui when he is a very young doctor, just landed off a whaler, and she is the fourteen-year-old daughter of an impossibly puritanical minister. When Saint must leave Maui, he could never imagine how much he would miss Juliana...."--from publisher.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The mutiny that raged aboard the Amistad made it one of the most famous ships in history. The vessel was a product of a dying slave trade, and the events on board were a testament to the strength of its captives who fought for their freedom. Through riveting facts, striking artwork, and a fictional account of the happenings, readers will learn of the horrors of the slave trade and the bloody revolt that happened aboard--Provided by publisher.
39) Middle passage
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Pub. Date
1990.
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A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.
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