Freebooters And Smugglers

Author : Ernest Obadele-Starks
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557288585

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Freebooters and Smugglers by Ernest Obadele-Starks Pdf

In 1891 a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: “Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine.” One law in particular he was referring to was the Abolition Act of 1808. It was specifically passed to end the foreign slave trade. However, as Ernest Obadele-Starks shows, thanks to profiteering smugglers like the Lafitte brothers and the Bowie brothers, the slave trade persisted throughout the south for a number of years after the law was passed. Freebooters and Smugglers examines the tactics and strategies that the adherents of the foreign slave trade used to challenge the law. It reassesses the role that Americans played in the continuation of foreign slave transshipments into the country right up to the Civil War, shedding light on an important topic that has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the slave trade.

Author : James Waylen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Brigands and robbers
ISBN : OXFORD:591035484

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The highwaymen of Wiltshire; or A narrative of the adventurous career and untimely end of divers freebooters and smugglers by James Waylen Pdf

Author : James Waylen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:655980002

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The Highwaymen of Wiltshire by James Waylen Pdf

Author : Andrew Wender Cohen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393241983

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Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century by Andrew Wender Cohen Pdf

How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world. In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of Smugglers,” and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a nation whose founders themselves had once dabbled in contraband. Since the Revolution itself, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs on most imports. Protecting the nation was the custom house, which waged a “war on smuggling,” inspecting every traveler for illicitly imported silk, opium, tobacco, sugar, diamonds, and art. The Civil War’s blockade of the Confederacy heightened the obsession with contraband, but smuggling entered its prime during the Gilded Age, when characters like assassin Louis Bieral, economist “The Parsee Merchant,” Congressman Ben Butler, and actress Rose Eytinge tempted consumers with illicit foreign luxuries. Only as the United States became a global power with World War I did smuggling lose its scurvy romance. Meticulously researched, Contraband explores the history of smuggling to illuminate the broader history of the United States, its power, its politics, and its culture.

Author : Thomas Mareite
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004523289

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Conditional Freedom by Thomas Mareite Pdf

While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982145095

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African Founders by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

"A ... synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--

Author : Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300213898

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 by Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn Pdf

Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.

Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199746880

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Smuggler Nation by Peter Andreas Pdf

Retells the story of America--and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world--as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine commerce.

Author : Nicole Eustace,Fredrika J. Teute
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469631769

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Warring for America by Nicole Eustace,Fredrika J. Teute Pdf

The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions endemic to the new nation, Americans of all kinds fought for country on the battleground of culture. The War of 1812 increased interest in the American democratic project and elicited calls for national unity, yet the essays collected in this volume suggest that the United States did not emerge from war in 1815 having resolved the Revolution's fundamental challenges or achieved a stable national identity. The cultural rifts of the early republican period remained vast and unbridged. Contributors: Brian Connolly, University of South Florida Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut Duncan Faherty, Queens College, CUNY James M. Greene, Pittsburg State University Matthew Rainbow Hale, Goucher College Jonathan Hancock, Hendrix College Tim Lanzendoerfer, University of Mainz Karen Marrero, Wayne State University Nathaniel Millett, St. Louis University Christen Mucher, Smith College Dawn Peterson, Emory University Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Michigan David Waldstreicher, The Graduate Center, CUNY Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State University

Author : James Waylen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Brigands and robbers
ISBN : OCLC:775460068

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The Highwaymen of Wiltshire, Or, A Narrative of the Adventurous Career and Untimely End of Divers Freebooters and Smugglers in this and the Adjoining Counties by James Waylen Pdf

Author : Claire M. Wolnisty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Americans
ISBN : 9781496207906

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A Different Manifest Destiny by Claire M. Wolnisty Pdf

A Different Manifest Destiny traces the way southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor from the antebellum to the Civil War era.

Author : Sheilagh Ogilvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139500395

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Institutions and European Trade by Sheilagh Ogilvie Pdf

What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful to increase their wealth, at the expense of outsiders, customers and society as a whole? These privileged associations of businessmen were key institutions in the European economy from 1000 to 1800. Historians debate merchant guilds' role in the Commercial Revolution, economists use them to support theories about institutions and development, and policymakers view them as prime examples of social capital, with important lessons for modern economies. Sheilagh Ogilvie's magisterial new history of commercial institutions shows how scrutinizing merchant guilds can help us understand which types of institution made trade grow, why institutions exist, and how corporate privileges affect economic efficiency and human well-being.

Author : Sharla M. Fett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469630038

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Recaptured Africans by Sharla M. Fett Pdf

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built to survive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately, a second transatlantic voyage to Liberia. Fett also demonstrates how the presence of slave-trade refugees in southern ports accelerated heated arguments between divergent antebellum political movements--from abolitionist human rights campaigns to slave-trade revivalism--that used recaptives to support their claims about slavery, slave trading, and race. By focusing on shipmate relations rather than naval exploits or legal trials, and by analyzing the experiences of both children and adults of varying African origins, Fett provides the first history of U.S. slave-trade suppression centered on recaptive Africans themselves. In so doing, she examines the state of "recaptivity" as a distinctive variant of slave-trade captivity and situates the recaptives' story within the broader diaspora of "Liberated Africans" throughout the Atlantic world.

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015084562464

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Transvaal by Great Britain. Colonial Office Pdf

Author : Andrew J. Torget
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469624259

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Seeds of Empire by Andrew J. Torget Pdf

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.