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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.
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- Title
- Williams' Gang
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jeff Forret
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1108730361
- ISBN13
- 9781108730365
- Series
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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.