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On November 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a narrow coastal channel and unloaded its cargo of African slaves on Jekyll Island, thirty-eight years after slaving was made illegal. Built in 1856, the Wanderer began life as a yacht, but within a year had …
Describes the history of the Wanderer, a one-time yacht transformed into an illegal ship, including its smuggling expeditions and those involved in smuggling slaves into the South.
1. The sea, the passage, and slavery -- 2. The dark hold : the slave ship and the middle passage -- 3. Marx and the pirates : 'forcing houses of internationalism' and the nautical proletariat -- 4. Wooden life-worlds : memory studies and the experience of slavery -- 5. The slave…
