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The Wanderer By John Egbert Farnum Essay

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The lists of abhorrent practices, like forced labor and human trafficking, that are involved with slavery and racial segregation has helped not only create a social divide between education and economic programs but has supported the values of capitalists within the American society today. Captain of the Wanderer, John Egbert Farnum, had rhetorically redesigned the architecture and setup of one of America’s fastest racing yacht to twist its functional maritime purpose of slave trade even though it had been banned by Congress half a century before. The Wanderer ship’s owners supported the dehumanization of others by enslaving them within a double layered reality. The reality of separate hidden floors on this ship not only ripped the African passengers’ freedom from them but also objectified them as items of economic profit. The use of an extravagant ship such as the Wanderer, in one of its final voyages to harbor slaves from Africa, is an example of an unresolved problem in the United States that include how slaves were dehumanized while they were hidden behind symbols of a great, wealthy, and a proud patriotic country. Originally served as an American pleasure schooner, the Wanderer’s involvement with the middle passage of the Slave Trade Act 1794 supported the dehumanization of slaves. A twenty-five year veteran of the US Navy, Tom Henderson Wells, includes a full description of the slave ship’s story behind the Georgian Charles Lamar, who designed the slave trade

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