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Shipwrecked
A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
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2023
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From the New York Times: "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked ... [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery."
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. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-7501-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-7502-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
318
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CONTENTS No access
ILLUSTRATIONS No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
PROLOGUE No access
1. FAMILY No access
2. CALIFORNIA No access
3. AFRICA No access
4. DIPLOMACY No access
5. SECESSION No access
6. THE AUGUSTA No access
7. FORT LAFAYETTE No access
8. FORT WARREN No access
9. CHARLES STREET JAIL No access
10. EXECUTION No access
11. TRIAL No access
12. ESCAPE No access
13. EXILE No access
14. LINCOLN No access
15. KIDNAPPING No access
16. DIVORCE No access
17. STORMS No access
18. DEATH No access
Appendix 1. OAKSMITH FAMILY TREE No access Pages 251 - 252
Appendix 2. THE WELLS AND MANUEL ORTIZ No access Pages 253 - 254
