Book contents
- Williams’ Gang
- Williams’ Gang
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Williams–Milburn genealogy
- Introduction The Slave Depot of Washington, D.C.
- Chapter 1 An Ambush
- Chapter 2 The Yellow House
- Chapter 3 Sale and Transportation
- Chapter 4 Mobile to New Orleans
- Chapter 5 Legal Troubles
- Chapter 6 The Millington Bank
- Chapter 7 State v. Williams
- Chapter 8 Slave Trading in “Hard Times”
- Chapter 9 Politics of the Slave Pen
- Chapter 10 Brothers
- Chapter 11 The Louisiana State Penitentiary
- Chapter 12 Closure
- Chapter 13 Perseverance
- Chapter 14 Violet
- Epilogue The Legal Legacy of the Domestic Slave Trade
- Book part
- Notes
- Index
Introduction - The Slave Depot of Washington, D.C.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- Williams’ Gang
- Williams’ Gang
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Williams–Milburn genealogy
- Introduction The Slave Depot of Washington, D.C.
- Chapter 1 An Ambush
- Chapter 2 The Yellow House
- Chapter 3 Sale and Transportation
- Chapter 4 Mobile to New Orleans
- Chapter 5 Legal Troubles
- Chapter 6 The Millington Bank
- Chapter 7 State v. Williams
- Chapter 8 Slave Trading in “Hard Times”
- Chapter 9 Politics of the Slave Pen
- Chapter 10 Brothers
- Chapter 11 The Louisiana State Penitentiary
- Chapter 12 Closure
- Chapter 13 Perseverance
- Chapter 14 Violet
- Epilogue The Legal Legacy of the Domestic Slave Trade
- Book part
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Already by the 1820s, the national capital of Washington, D.C. had emerged as a significant depot in the increasingly professionalized domestic slave trade. The introduction sketches the history of slave dealing in the capital, William H. Williams’ emergence on to the slave-trading scene there, and the broad contours of how the slave trade functioned, often depositing its victims for sale in New Orleans, Louisiana. It argues that the story of William H. Williams and his one shipment of convict slaves purchased in 1840 provides a snapshot of the antebellum era socially, economically, politically, and legally.
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- Williams' GangA Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020