British Consuls and the Negro Seamen Acts, 1850-1860

Hamer, Philip M.

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“…This draconian law was followed by a series of similar measures, enacted between 1829 and 1856 in other slaveholding states: Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas (Hamer, 1935a, pp. 12-26; Hamer, 1935b, p. 167). A South Carolinian politician succinctly articulated the principle behind his state’s act: to guard “the common interest of every citizen who had a family to protect, to secure the State from incendiaries” (The United Kingdom.…”

Section: Southern Slavery: the Bane Of British Freedommentioning

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“…These cases, brought by George Mathew, British consul in Charleston, spurred an indignant public response to South Carolina’s seamen act. When the Foreign Office, under pressure from the conciliatory U.S. federal government, declined to pursue the cases after they were either closed or decided in South Carolina’s favor, the metropolitan government faced an even stronger outcry (Hamer, 1935b, pp. 159-160; Wong, 2009, p. 210).…”

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Different Tales of John Glasgow: John Brown’s Evolution toSlave Life in Georgia

Asaka

2018

Journal of Black Studies

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This article seeks to advance conversation on the literary and political agency of fugitive slave narrators and their far-reaching archival footprints by focusing on the evolution of John Brown’s narrative of John Glasgow, a Demerara-born free Black sailor with whom Brown toiled side by side on a Georgian plantation. In British and U.S. abolitionist discourse, Glasgow’s tragic story—he was imprisoned under Georgia’s seamen law upon arriving in Savannah and eventually fell into bondage—made him the symbol of the southern seamen acts’ egregious infringement of British freedom. Brown, a formerly enslaved expatriate resident in England, told this tale in his autobiography Slave Life in Georgia, but the authorship of this story has some ambiguity. It is believed by some scholars that the narrative’s editor, London-based White abolitionist Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, concocted the tale. By drawing on newly discovered documents, this article demonstrates that Brown originally attributed Glasgow’s enslavement to kidnapping by deceit, not to a Black seamen law. Furthermore, an examination of British diplomatic dispatches and the details of the Black seaman law operating in Savannah at that time posits the likelihood that Glasgow became enslaved by deception rather than law. What do we make of these findings? Instead of marshalling them to confirm Chamerovzow as the story’s creator, this article speculates that John Brown himself invented the Glasgow story and imagines a transatlantic Black political circuitry connecting England and Canada.

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Section: Southern Slavery: the Bane Of British Freedommentioning

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Section: Southern Slavery: the Bane Of British Freedommentioning

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Different Tales of John Glasgow: John Brown’s Evolution toSlave Life in Georgia

Asaka

2018

Journal of Black Studies

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Rebellious Passage

Kerr‐Ritchie

2019

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When people in the United States and the United Kingdom encounter the term "special relationship," several things often spring to mind: former colonial ties; English as a common language; cordial relations between presidents and prime ministers -Roosevelt and Churchill, Reagan and Thatcher, Clinton and Blair; and cultural exchange -Beatlemania and Motown to an older generation, and Michael Jordan, David Beckham, Beyoncé, and Adele to younger generations.A more malevolent relationship is rarely evoked. The decades since the 1940s have seen the forging of an unprecedented level of military and intelligence cooperation between Washington and London. Between 1955 and 1975, the Vietnam Warthe Vietnamese refer to it as the American Warclaimed the lives of between 1.3 million and 3.1 million people, depending on which side you ask. 1 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson refrained from criticizing this bloodbath at the time by reportedly saying, "We can't kick our creditors in the balls." Since the 1990s, London has repeatedly supported American intervention in the Arab-Muslim world during wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria that have claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands people. 21 "Vietnam War Casualties," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_ casualties 2 Some of us disagree that the world is a better place as a consequence of US global power supported by its junior partner in London. A British diplomat visiting Howard University several years ago seemed a little taken aback by my disagreement. The chaos and bloodshed in the Arab-Islamic world, the blowback in European cities, and the extension of the security state into the lives of American and British citizens over the past two decades suggest that the axis of good could not have got it more spectacularly wrong.

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2019

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British Consuls and the Negro Seamen Acts, 1850-1860

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