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Recaptured Africans
Mon, JUN 19, 2017, 06:30pm

Sharla M. Fett: Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade. In the years before the Civil War the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 captured Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them to temporary camps in Key West and Charleston. Some were later returned to Liberia.

Location Central Library, 14 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, MO