The ordeal of the refugee ship St. Louis has become a symbol of the world's indifference to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939; more than nine hundred Jewish refugees boarded the St. Louis in Hamburg; Germany
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent! Very useful for students that wish to know ...By victor pateExcellent! Very useful for students that wish to know and understand the truth about the ugly behavior of America's past and the fact that kidnapped people never went quietly into submission.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Scholarly and thoroughBy Patricia Roberts-MillerThis book is not; unfortunately; an easy read. It's thorough; careful; and heavily reliant on close analysis of bills of sales. Tadman's conclusion is that slave "owners" were speculators; selling slaves when the price was high; and holding them when it was low. (An important defense of slavery was that slave "owners" only sold slaves when financially pressed--this book shows the opposite was true.) Tadman calculates that "at least" 69.3% of the 154;000 interregional exportations in the 1820s were sales (with the rest slaves taken along with immigrating planters; Tadman 246). Unless those 106;722 slaves were all unmarried orphans; slave "owners" broke up a lot of families. Tadman estimates that the interregional slave trade broke up families in 51% of cases (150); this trade would have led to the termination of one out of every five marriages in the Upper South; one out of three children under the age of fourteen would have been sold away from parents. Local sales; he says "would have raised this proportion to about one in two" (211-2).7 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Dry but strong; well-written and well-illustrated.By A CustomerCalmly and with much use of statistics; Tadman utterly smashes any idea that the master-slave relationship might have been truly paternal or any good at all for the slaves. This book starts slowly but leads to a strong; harsh conclusion: slave owners had virtually no regard for their slaves' family lives or happiness. It includes many good tables and historic illustrations.
