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    The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, The Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
    The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, The Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
    The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, The Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
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    The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, The Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade

    By Jim Jordan

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    Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War.
     
    In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades, and it shocked a nation already on the path to civil war.
     
    Nearly thirty years later, the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar’s letters, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities. However, the authenticity of the letters was in doubt until very recently. In the twenty-first century, researcher Jim Jordan found a cache of private papers belonging to Charles Lamar’s father, stored for decades in an attic in New Jersey. Among the documents was Charles Lamar’s letter book—confirming him as the author.
     
    The first part of this book recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Lamar himself, including involvement in southern secession, the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. A portrait emerges at odds with Lamar's previous image as a savvy entrepreneur and principled rebel. Instead, we see a man who was often broke and whose volatility sabotaged him at every turn. His involvement in the slave trade was driven more by financial desperation than southern defiance. The second part presents the “Slave-Trader's Letter-Book.” Together with annotations, these seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling, figure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 15, 2018
    ISBN9780820351957
    The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, The Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade

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