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The Price They Paid Slavery Shipwrecks And Reparations Before The Civil War Jeff Forret

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The Price They Paid Slavery Shipwrecks And Reparations Before The Civil War Jeff Forret
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The Price They Paid Slavery Shipwrecks And Reparations Before The Civil War Jeff Forret instant download after payment.

Publisher: The New Press
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 12.78 MB
Pages: 381
Author: Jeff Forret
ISBN: 9781620978993, 1620978997
Language: English
Year: 2024

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The Price They Paid Slavery Shipwrecks And Reparations Before The Civil War Jeff Forret by Jeff Forret 9781620978993, 1620978997 instant download after payment.

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves


"A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations."
—Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic


In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the ship's owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters...

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