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Slave Ship Guerrero

by:
Gail Swanson (Author)

ISBN: 0-7414-2765-6 ©2005
Price: $24.95
Book Size: 5.5'' x 8.5'' , 237 pages
Category/Subject: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

The story of the wrecking of a Spanish slaver off Key Largo when being pursued by a British warship; one of the most dramatic events of U.S. coastal maritime history.

Abstract:
Discovered during her research of British warships at the Florida Keys, historian Gail Swanson brings the story of a dramatic event to Florida maritime history. The wrecking of the laden slave ship Guerrero off Key Largo involved 561 Africans, some 90 Spanish, 56 British Royal Navy men, and Key West seafarers. The aftermath involved North Florida Indians, southern plantation owners, President John Quincy Adams, the governor of Barbados, and the settlement of freed black Americans in Africa; Liberia.

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