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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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