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

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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leonard, William Ambrose, 1837-1889
Other Authors: Gilliland, C. Herbert (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
Series:Studies in maritime history.
Subjects:
Leonard, William Ambrose, > 1837-1889 > Diaries.
Leonard, William Ambrose, > 1837-1889
Constellation (Frigate) > History.
United States. > Navy. > African Squadron.
United States. > Navy > Sea life > History > 19th century.
Constellation (Frigate)
United States. > Navy
United States. > Navy. > African Squadron
1800-1899
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > Military > Naval.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Antislavery movements
Armed Forces > Sea life
Slave trade
West Africa
United States
Diaries
History
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