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The Slave Trade's Last Voyage: The Wanderer's Illegal Landing
In 1858, thirty years after the British and Americans banned the transatlantic slave trade, the luxury yacht Wanderer slipped past patrols and landed nearly 500 enslaved Africans on Jekyll Island, Georgia. This episode unpacks the Wanderer's brazen voyage, the wealthy Southern sportsmen who financed it, and the federal case that ended in acquittal — exposing how deeply the slave trade still ran through American society. Lucas and Luna trace the ship from its purchase by William Corrie to its capture by the US Navy, and examine the trial of captain William C. Martin, where a Savannah jury…
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