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Apokoto

The African town in which Capt. John Charity Spring's trading party meets King Gezo.

Balliol College

A bargue built in Baltimore, Maryland, but ostensibly owned and registered in Mexico, and mastered by Captain John Charity Spring.

Chartists

A working-class movement in Great Britain, pushing for civil rights.

Cleeve House

The fairish establishment in Seend, England, to which John Morrison takes his son-in-law, narrator Harry Flashman, hoping to launch him on a political career.

Middle Passage

A euphemism for the slave trade.

New Orleans, Louisiana

The bustling port city serving as a seaport linking the Mississippi River with the Caribbean.

Portsmouth, Ohio

The town on the north shore of the Ohio River beyond which the riverboat Bostona cannot move in icy conditions.

Sultana

A large, fast, side-wheel steamer, this is selected by Underground Railroad manager, Crixus, to take runaway slave George Randolph from New Orleans in the company...

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