The slave ship : a human history
Rediker, Marcus2008
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'The Slave Ship' focuses on the so-called 'golden age' of the slave trade, the period of 1700-1808, when more than six million people were transported out of Africa, most of them on British and American ships, across the Atlantic, to slave on New World plantations.Subject: Focusing on the period between 1700-1808, when over 6 million people were transported out of Africa, across the Atlantic, to work on New World plantations, the author uses archival data and intensive research to chronicle individual accounts. He reconstructs the experiences of captains, sailors and slaves to uncover personal histories during the greatest forced migration ever undertaken. Chapters include; The Evolution of the Slave Ship; African Paths to the Middle Passage: an analysis of the experiences of Olaudah Equiano as an enslaved child on board slave ships; the memoirs of James Field Stanfield, who had served as a sailor on a slave ship from Liverpool to Benin and Jamaica and published a series of letters based on his observations, addressed to the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson in 1788; and the life of John Newton, slave ship captain and author of the hymn "Amazing Grace", who sailed from Liverpool and Bristol.
Main title:
The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker.
Author:
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2008.
Collation:
448 p.
Notes:
Originally published: 2007.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780719563034 (pbk)0719563038 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.3'62'096HI.1.02RED
Local class:
HI.1.02/RED
Language:
English
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BRN:
559634