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Williams' Gang - A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts (Hardcover)
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Williams' Gang - A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts (Hardcover)
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William H. Williams operated a slave pen in Washington, DC, known
as the Yellow House, and actively trafficked in enslaved men,
women, and children for more than twenty years. His slave trading
activities took an extraordinary turn in 1840 when he purchased
twenty-seven enslaved convicts from the Virginia State Penitentiary
in Richmond with the understanding that he could carry them outside
of the United States for sale. When Williams conveyed his captives
illegally into New Orleans, allegedly while en route to the foreign
country of Texas, he prompted a series of courtroom dramas that
would last for almost three decades. Based on court records,
newspapers, governors' files, slave manifests, slave narratives,
travelers' accounts, and penitentiary data, Williams' Gang examines
slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and southern
jurisprudence as it supplies a compelling portrait of the economy,
society, and politics of the Old South.
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