The Price They Paid by Jeff Forret

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/28258to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Price They Paid Author: Jeff Forret Narrator: J. D. Jackson Format: mp3 Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins Release date: 11-26-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau set the rescued captives free. In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prize–winner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incident—as well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decade—resulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests.

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