Bücher online kaufen
Williams’ Gang
Paperback
Print on Demand | Lieferzeit: Print on Demand - Lieferbar innerhalb von 3-5 Werktagen I
Artikel-Nr:
9781108730365
Veröffentl:
2021
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.12.2021
Seiten:
486
Autor:
Jeff Forret
Gewicht:
782 g
Format:
229x152x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jeff Forret is Professor of History at Lamar University, Texas. He won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South (2015) and has authored Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside (2006), among other works.
Williams' Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors' files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data, Jeff Forret examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and Southern jurisprudence.
Introduction: the slave depot of Washington, DC; 1. An ambush; 2. The Yellow House; 3. Sale and transportation; 4. Mobile to New Orleans; 5. Legal troubles; 6. The Millington Bank; 7. State v. Williams; 8. Slave trading in 'hard times'; 9. Politics of the slave pen; 10. Brothers; 11. The Louisiana State Penitentiary; 12. Closure; 13. Perseverance; 14. Violet; Epilogue: the legal legacy of the domestic slave trade.