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ISBN

1591143209

Price

$27.95

Publisher

Naval Institute Press

Abstract

80 cannon on the African coast

A sailor's journal details disruption of slave trade

On January 1, 1808, the United States took the first step in ending its "peculiar institution" by banning the importation of slaves. Eleven years later, Congress passed a law allowing the presiden....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.6.3.34

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