Today, the 20-gun sloop U.S.S. Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859, it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for...
Slave trade
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Author:Gilliland, C. HerbertSummary: -
Author:Lester, JuliusSummary:A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important...
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Author:Cornell, Becky, Bales, Kevin, Springer, JaneSummary:"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail....
- Author:Johnson, CharlesSummary:
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave from an Illinois farm, travels to New Orleans only to discover that nothing but misery awaits him in the big city. Sitting on a pier as he contemplates his life, he decides the sea holds his...
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Author:Evaristo, BernardineSummary: - Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
In 1799, the American captain Amasa Delano anchored in the bay of a Chilean coastal desert island. The next morning at the site appeared a mysterious ship, the Santo Domingo. The maneuvers of the American sopechar it did it was a ship...
- Author:Hurston, Zora NealeSummary:
The true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, illegally smuggled from Africa on the last "black cargo" ship to arrive in the United States.
