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The Price They Paid

- Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
Af: Jeff Forret Engelsk Hardback

The Price They Paid

- Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
Af: Jeff Forret Engelsk Hardback
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A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves

“A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.”
—Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic

In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the ship’s owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters deprived of their human property.


In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prize–winner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incident—as well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decade—resulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests. Through a story that has never been fully explored, The Price They Paid shows how, unlike their former owners and insurers, neither the survivors of the Comet and other vessels, nor their descendants, have ever received reparations for the price they paid in their lives, labor, and suffering during slavery.


Any accounting of reparations today requires a fuller understanding of how the debts of slavery have been paid, and to whom. The Price They Paid represents a major step forward in that effort.

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A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves

“A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.”
—Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic

In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the ship’s owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters deprived of their human property.


In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prize–winner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incident—as well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decade—resulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests. Through a story that has never been fully explored, The Price They Paid shows how, unlike their former owners and insurers, neither the survivors of the Comet and other vessels, nor their descendants, have ever received reparations for the price they paid in their lives, labor, and suffering during slavery.


Any accounting of reparations today requires a fuller understanding of how the debts of slavery have been paid, and to whom. The Price They Paid represents a major step forward in that effort.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781620978863
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1620978865
Udg. Dato: 2 jan 2025
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 244mm
Højde: 159mm
Forlag: The New Press
Oplagsdato: 2 jan 2025
Forfatter(e): Jeff Forret
Forfatter(e) Jeff Forret


Kategori Slaveri og afskaffelse af slaveri


ISBN-13 9781620978863


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 336


Udgave


Længde 29mm


Bredde 244mm


Højde 159mm


Udg. Dato 2 jan 2025


Oplagsdato 2 jan 2025


Forlag The New Press