American Slave Trade

by Jesse Torrey

Overview

Reproduction of the original: American Slave Trade by Jesse Torrey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732633265
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	04/04/2018
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Early in the nineteenth century, Philadelphia physician Jesse Torrey compiled a broad range of interviews, narratives and his own first-hand observations into an illustrated volume appropriately entitled, A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, published in Philadelphia in 1817.
Torrey's book contained several engravings related to slave kidnappings, a profitable underground industry that thrived during the period. Free blacks were especially vulnerable to kidnappers, who would sell them into slavery using forged documents.