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USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast : Willie Leonard's Journal, 1859-1861 /

"Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for what proved to be a twenty-month voyage to the African coast...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Leonard, William Ambrose, 1837-1889
Otros Autores: Gilliland, C. Herbert (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Method -- Prologue -- June 1859 -- July 1859 -- August 1859 -- September 1859 -- October 1859 -- November 1859 -- December 1859 -- January 1860 -- February 1860 -- March 1860 -- April 1860 -- May 1860 -- June 1860 -- July 1860 -- August 1860 -- September 1860 -- October 1860 -- November 1860 -- December 1860 -- January 1861 -- February 1861 -- March 1861 -- April 1861 -- May 1861 -- June 1861 -- July 1861 -- August 1861 -- September 1861 -- October 1861 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. 
520 |a "Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for what proved to be a twenty-month voyage to the African coast, he began to compose a remarkable journal. Sailing from Boston, the Constellation, flagship of the U.S. African Squadron, was charged with the interception and capture of slave-trading vessels illegally en route from Africa to the Americas. During the Constellation's deployment, the squadron captured a record number of these ships, liberating their human cargo and holding the captains and crews for criminal prosecution. At the same time, tensions at home and in the squadron increased as the American Civil War approached and erupted in April 1861. Leonard recorded not only historic events but also fascinating details about his daily life as one of the nearly 400-member crew. He saw himself as not just a diarist, but a reporter, making special efforts to seek out and record information about individual crewmen, shipboard practices, recreation and daily routine--from deck swabbing and standing watch to courts martial and dramatic performances by the Constellation Dramatic Society. This good-humored gaze into the lives and fortunes of so many men stationed aboard a distinguished American warship makes Gilliland's edition of Willie Leonard's journal a significant work of maritime history"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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