Description: Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.
Brief description: Jeff Forret is Professor of History at Lamar University, Texas. He won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South (2015) and has authored Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside (2006), among other works.
Review Quotes: 'Williams' Gang is simply excellent and a must-read for anyone who wishes to know more about the history of the post-Revolutionary War slave trade in America, or the slave trade coming out of Washington, DC.' George W. Reid, The Journal of African American History