John Harris
John Harris is McDonald-Boswell Chair in History at Erskine College and the author of The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. Follow him on Twitter: @drjohnaeharris.
Articles From This Author
The Atlantic Slave Trade Continued Illegally in America Until the Civil War
The United States transatlantic slave trade wasn’t supposed to last all the way to the Civil War. And it wasn’t supposed to be a profit center for America’s abolitionist North. But even after Congress banned U.S. participation in the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 and declared it ...read more