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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
January 7, 2022
Media Contact:
Leah Kosin, Assistant Public Information Officer
pio@leesburgva.gov 703-771-2781
Virtual Presentation to Discuss Slave Trade at Sea
Leesburg, VA (January 7, 2022) – Andrew Jampoler will
present his virtual lecture “The Slave Trade at Sea” on
Wednesday, January 26, beginning at 1 p.m. EST.
Millions of Africans, forcibly removed from their home
continent, were until two centuries ago exported to labor as
property in the mines and plantations of the New World. Their
forced labor produced the flood of wealth that changed the
economies of the old world, prompted industrialization, and
foresaw today’s global economy. Determined efforts to outlaw
and ultimately to eliminate this criminal business finally
succeeded in the early 19th century, thanks in part to policing
by the Royal and United States Navies.
Pre-registration is required for this event. Please call 703-737-7195, email balchlib@leesburgva.gov, or
register online.
Andrew Jampoler is an alumnus of Columbia College and the School of International and Public Affairs,
both of Columbia University in New York City, and of the US State Department Foreign Service Institute’s
School of Language Study. While in the US Navy, Jampoler, a naval aviator who flew Lockheed P-3
airplanes in search of submarines, also commanded a land-based maritime patrol aircraft squadron and
an air station. Jampoler has been researching and writing non-fiction books for more than twenty years.
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