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John Harris on The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
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(4/20/21) Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early 19th century by every major slave-trading nation, US merchants were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships to the African coast. As revealed in the new book The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage from McDonald-Boswell assistant professor of history at Erskine College Dr. John Harris, the key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of another massive slavery market in Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. Join us for a look at how our government ignored and even abetted this human rights atrocity in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.
(4/20/21) Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early 19th century by every major slave-trading nation, US merchants were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships to the African coast. As revealed in the new book The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage from McDonald-Boswell assistant professor of history at Erskine College Dr. John Harris, the key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of another massive slavery market in Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. Join us for a look at how our government ignored and even abetted this human rights atrocity in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.
54 min