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Howard, Warren S., fl. 1963 American Slavers and the Federal Law: 1837-1862

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05879 Author/Creator: Howard, Warren S., fl. 1963 Place Written: Berkeley, California Type: Book Date: 1963 Pagination: 1 v. : ill. : 336 p. ; 24 x 16 cm. Order a Copy

Published by University of California Press. Discusses the illegal slave trade violated "mostly by Americans helping foreigners to carry slaves into Cuba or Brazil... also by Americans smuggling slaves into the states of the deep South."

Howard, Warren S., fl. 1963

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