PDF Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children; Slavery; and Smuggling by Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance in History

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An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas; from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade’s impact within the United States; considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject; this study draws on Portuguese; Brazilian; and Spanish primary documents—as well as English-language material—to shed new light on the changing behavior of slave traders and their networks; particularly in Brazil and Cuba. Slavery in these nations; as Marques shows; contributed to the mounting tensions that would ultimately lead to the U.S. Civil War. Taking a truly Atlantic perspective; Marques outlines the multiple forms of U.S. involvement in this traffic amid various legislation and shifting international relations; exploring the global processes that shaped the history of this participation.