American Slave Trade: A Non-Fiction Classic By Jesse Torrey! AAA+++
Early in the nineteenth century, Philadelphia physician Jesse Torrey compiled a broad range of interviews, narratives and his own first-hand observations into an illustrated volume appropriately entitled, A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, published in Philadelphia in 1817. Torrey's book contained several engravings related to slave kidnappings, a profitable underground industry that thrived during the period. Free blacks were especially vulnerable to kidnappers, who would sell them into slavery using forged documents.
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American Slave Trade: A Non-Fiction Classic By Jesse Torrey! AAA+++
Early in the nineteenth century, Philadelphia physician Jesse Torrey compiled a broad range of interviews, narratives and his own first-hand observations into an illustrated volume appropriately entitled, A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, published in Philadelphia in 1817. Torrey's book contained several engravings related to slave kidnappings, a profitable underground industry that thrived during the period. Free blacks were especially vulnerable to kidnappers, who would sell them into slavery using forged documents.
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American Slave Trade: A Non-Fiction Classic By Jesse Torrey! AAA+++
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| BN ID: | 2940148767411 |
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| Publisher: | BDP |
| Publication date: | 08/26/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 138 KB |
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