ISBN
9781538175019
Publication Date
2023
Price
29.95
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Abstract
Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith’s case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.26.3.07
Recommended Citation
Horne, Gerald
(2024)
"Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running and the Slave Trade,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 26
:
Iss.
3
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.26.3.07
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol26/iss3/7
