The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War

Name: The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War
Author: Gerald Horne
ISBN: 9780824831479

by Gerald Horne

Description of The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War

As the US Civil War dragged on, freebooters took advantage of the development of new sources for sugar & cotton to establish an alternative slave trade in Melanesians & Polynesians. This book tells the story of the South Seas slave trade.