Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope

by Jonathan M. Bryant

Book Overview

In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the international slave trade more than a decade before, the ship's almost 300 African captives were considered illegal cargo under American laws. But with slavery still a critical part of the American economy, it would eventually fall to the Supreme Court to determine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871406756
• ISBN13: 9780871406750
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"