Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave Trade in the United States After 1808

Authors

Robert Gudmestad

ISBN

9781557288585

Price

$34.95 hardcover

Publisher

University of Arkansas Press

Abstract

America’s Illicit Foreign Slave Trade

Perhaps the long shadow of W.E.B. Du Bois has dissuaded some scholars from engaging in a fresh examination of the illegal slave trade to the United States. Du Bois, in his seminal The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States o....