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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails.

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Publication Date: 01-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails.(Book review)

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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails. By Erik Calonius. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Pp. [xviii], 298. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-312-34347-7.)

The flaming rhetoric of the southerners who campaigned for secession in the 1850s earned them the moniker "fire-eaters." One fire-eater, Savannah businessman Charles A. L. Lamar, after trying unsuccessfully in 1857 to break the half-century-old national law by importing captive Africans into the United States, tried again the next year, using a sleek, new, fast yacht, the Wanderer. Flying the pennant of the New York Yacht Club to allay suspicions, the vessel sailed to the Congo River, took on 487 Africans, and then crossed the Atlantic to unload the survivors at Georgia's...

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