JIM JORDAN is an author and historian living in South Carolina. He is the author of the novels Savannah Grey: A Tale of Antebellum Georgia and Penny Savannah: A Tale of Civil War in Georgia.
Jordan's study of Lamar and the Wanderer voyage and trials is
richly detailed and will be valuable for southern and antebellum
scholars interested in secession, fire-eaters, and the illegal
slave trade. Scholars in these fields certainly owe Jordan a debt
of gratitude for transcribing, organizing, and publishing the
seventy letters collected in the second half of The Slave Trader's
Letter-Book.--Chris Blakley "H-Net: Humanities and Social Science
Reviews Online "
This intriguing and educational book is in two parts. The first, a
thorough and well-researched biography of one of antebellum
Georgia's most famous scoundrels; the second, a professionally
edited and annotated printing of Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar's
long-lost and recently rediscovered letter-book. Both parts are
well worth the read by scholars and the general public. Charles
Lamar was the instigator of the infamous voyage of the Wanderer. He
was a hero to southern secessionists and a criminal to northern
abolitionists. That makes this book important to all those
interested in the antebellum and Civil War history of
Georgia.--Lawrence S. Rowland "coeditor of The Civil War in South
Carolina "
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