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1 online resource (1 audio file (660 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Tom Zingarelli. |
| Summary |
In 1820, the slave ship Antelope was captured off the Florida coast. Though the slave trade was prohibited, slavery was still legal in half of the United States, and it was left to the Supreme Court to determine whether the nearly 300 Africans on board were considered slaves-and if so, to whom they belonged. Mining untapped archives, Jonathan M. Bryant recounts the Antelope's fraught journey across the Atlantic, leading up to the momentous courtroom battle of 1825 that defined the moral and legal implications of slavery for a generation and was enormously influential in the Amistad trial. From Havana ports to the West African coast, from Georgia plantations to a Liberian settlement, Dark Places of the Earth creates a multidimensional portrait of the global slave trade. Bryant's work restores the Antelope to its rightful place as one of the most shocking and unjustly forgotten episodes in American legal history. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Antelope (Ship : Active 1820) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Cases.
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Slave ships -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Prize law -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Cases.
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Trials (Piracy) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Zingarelli, Tom. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781622318827 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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162231882X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11425777 |
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