Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts
In Williams’ Gang, Jeff Forret explores a Washington, DC, slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Forret joins Cambridge University Press Senior Editor Cecelia Cancellaro to discuss the three-decade-long courtroom drama, the parallels between the slave trade and the modern-day prison-industrial complex, and more.
Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.
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Jeff Forret is Professor of History at Lamar University, Texas. He won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South (2015) and has authored Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside (2006), among other works....
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