Jonathan W. White

Shipwrecked (eBook, ePUB)

A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the New York Times: "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked ... [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery."

Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538175026
• Artikelnr.: 67881220

Autorenporträt

Jonathan W. White is associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author of ten books and over 100 articles, essays, and reviews on Lincoln and the Civil War. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, Time, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He lives in Newport News, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part 1. Youth
Chapter 1: Family
Chapter 2: California
Chapter 3: Africa
Chapter 4: Diplomacy
Chapter 5: Secession
Part 2. War
Chapter 6: The Augusta
Chapter 7: Fort Lafayette
Chapter 8: Fort Warren
Chapter 9: Charles Street Prison
Chapter 10: Execution
Chapter 11: Trial
Part 3. Isolation
Chapter 12: Escape
Chapter 13: Exile
Chapter 14: Lincoln
Chapter 15: Kidnapping
Chapter 16: Divorce
Chapter 17: Storms
Chapter 18: Death
Appendix 1: Oaksmith Family Tree
Appendix 2: The Wells and Manuel Ortiz
Selected Bibliography
Abbreviations in Notes
Notes