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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…
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.
"In November 1781, thee captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert - the only extant public document relate…
"In November 1781, thee captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert - the only extant public document relate…