Among the Powers of the Earth, 2012, p.145-177
2012
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- A Slaveholding Republic
- Ist Teil von
- Among the Powers of the Earth, 2012, p.145-177
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Harvard University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- As he watched the Royal Navy’s sloopAbrinaapproach, Paul Cuffe must have known that there would be trouble. Although he had spent nearly a year in Britain and Africa, most recently as a guest of the London-based African Institution in Sierra Leone, Cuffe was master of the Westport, Massachusetts, brigTraveller,and Britain and the United States were about to become embroiled in the War of 1812. According to the account that Cuffe recorded in the ship’s log, the British commander, Captain James Tidwell, followed the navy’s standard procedure when stopping foreign ships. Convinced that Cuffe was engaged in
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780674046085, 0674046080DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674065024.c6Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt24hjg8_10
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- African Americans, American minorities, Anthropology, Applied sciences, Armed conflict, Behavioral sciences, Congressional legislation, Engineering, Ethnic groups, Ethnology, Former slaves, International law, Law, Legislation, Military science, Political science, Ships, Slave ownership, Slave ships, Slave trade, Slavery, Slaves, Social organization, Sociology, Statutory law, Trade legislation, Transportation, Treaties, Vehicles, War, Watercraft