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Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts
Williams' Gang A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts
Author: Jeff Forret
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781108493031
ISBN-10: 1108493033
Publication Date: 1/16/2020
Pages: 482
Edition: Illustrated
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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