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Author Obadele-Starks, Ernest, 1959- author.

Title Freebooters and smugglers : the foreign slave trade in the United States after 1808 / by Ernest Obadele-Starks
Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Photographs and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "A View of Opening a Trade"; 2. "A Particular Kind of Force"; 3. "Turbulent and Bad Men"; 4. "Difficult to Repress"; 5. "A Great Frontier Movement"; 6. "No Argument Could Be Made"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Ernest Obadele-Starks holds a joint appointment as an associate professor of history at Texas A & M University-College Station and Texas A & M University at Qatar. He is the author of Black Unionism in the Industrial South and has written several articles examining various political and social aspects of the African American diaspora. He is currently working on a comparative study of free black settlements in Canada, the United States, and Mexico from 1849 to 1867
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slave traders -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Pirates -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Smugglers -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Pirates
Slave trade
Slave traders
Slavery
Slavery -- Law and legislation
Smugglers
Sklavenhandel
Africa
Southern States
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781610751643
1610751647