slave traders

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slave traders

Hanging Captain Gordon

the life and trial of an American slave trader
2006

Crossing the river

1994
Describes the lives of three black children condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753.

Out of slavery

the journey to Amazing grace
2009

Prince among slaves

2008
In 1788, a slave ship sailed from the Gambia River with hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. The true story of an African prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or hope of freedom.

The Wanderer

the last American slave ship and the conspiracy that set its sails
2006
Chronicles the events surrounding the final voyage of the "Wanderer" a ship that secretly transported more than four hundred African slaves to Georgia in November 1858, thirty-eight years after the African slave trade was made illegal.

Crossing the river

1995
Describes the lives of three black children condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753.

Star wars adventures

Chewbacca and the slavers of the Shadowlands
2011
Chewbacca relates a story from his youth when he and some of his friends, eager to prove themselves ready for the rites of adulthood on their native Kashyyyk, wandered into the perilous Shadowlands in search of adventure. They got more adventure than expected when they encountered a gang of slavers who were preparing to raid the Wookie village.

Amazing grace

the story of the hymn
1997
Describes the events of the life of John Newton as a captain aboard a slave trade vessel and later as a clergyman that led to his writing the well-loved hymn, "Amazing Grace.".

Inheriting the trade

a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history
2008
The author, along with other members of his family, extensively research their family's heritage revealing their relationship to the most successful slave-trade family in American history.
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