Thank you very much for the compliment, Ann, but this is a complilation of books and research. I cannot take credit for a book. This was an undertaking after I stumbled across something about slave-running. It was the most fascinating, yet horrid story I had seen of slavery.

To speak of slavery in the South and then think your whole life that it has stopped, doesn't speak well for any amateur historian. Always dig deeper. What I found was an unspeakable horror that continued by the same Abolitionists who had helped in destroying the South in their zeal to rid it of Slavery. Yet, all the while, they were making a profit by continuing "slave-running" in their ships throughout the world, the worst probably in Brazil.

But the thought of their fancy pianos sitting in their parlors in the North (they certainly weren't in the South, for the South existed no more.) and watching their lovely daughters play for soirees, teas, etc. and to know how the ivory keys got there is something.  One would think it would make them nauseated, but apparently not.

I hope that everyone who read this thread learned something.  I have given many biblographies on this subject.  There are many more. 

 PIE