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History Matters: Liverpool & the Slave Trade

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published September 10, 2019 at 7:45 AM CDT
Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on ("The Slave Ship")
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) -
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Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying — Typhoon coming on ("The Slave Ship")";
Dr. Gary Joiner
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Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, September 10, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Dr. Gary Joiner takes a look the role of Liverpool England in the Slave Trade, and why a former slave ship captain penned the hymn, Amazing Grace.
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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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