The Wanderer: America's Last Slave Ship That Got Away With It
In 1858, fifty years after the U.S. banned the slave trade, a luxury yacht called the Wanderer sailed to Africa, kidnapped 487 people, and smuggled 409 survivors into Georgia. Everyone involved was caught and tried. Not one person was convicted. This is the story of America's last large slave ship and the complete failure of justice that allowed it to happen.
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Wikipedia - Wanderer (slave ship)
New Georgia Encyclopedia - Wanderer article
The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails by Erik Calonius
The Slave Ship Wanderer by Tom Henderson Wells
Massachusetts Historical Society - Wanderer materials
Jekyll Island Foundation - Wanderer Memory Trail
College of Coastal Georgia - Wanderer research guide
Jim Jordan - The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales
Golden Isles Magazine - Remembering the Wanderer
History.com - The Last American Slave Ship
Essential Civil War Curriculum - The Fire-Eaters