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Ballard, Rice C. (Rice Carter) -1860 Franklin, Isaac 1789-1846 HISTORY / United States / General Oaksmith, Appleton 1827 or 1828-1887 Slave trade Slave trade United States History 19th century Slave traders Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner) 1813-1846 Underground Railroad United StatesRothman, Joshua D.
Summary: "In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROTWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6092 WHIShane, Scott
Summary: "A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers 2023