"Readers should not forget what is as hard to appreciate today in the case of slave trading as it was over a hundred years ago when Gomer Williams wrote his book - that both were legitimate endeavours in the eyes of domestic and emerging international law, and, more important, neither was viewed as in any way immoral: before the late eighteenth century, slave trading and privateering were seen as indistinguishable from trading in Baltic timber or Canadian furs." David Eltis, from the new introduction, 2004.
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- 359.4/092/242753
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- 22
- General Note
- Reprint of the ed. published: London : W. Heinemann, 1897 Includes indexes Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- e-uk-en
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- 9780773572096 0773527451
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- DA77
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- W5 2004eb
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- 1 electronic text (xxvi, 718 p., [4] folded leaves of plates)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 10
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 14
- INTRODUCTION, 2004 16
- PREFACE 28
- PART I. — PRIVATEERING 32
- CHAPTER I. A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES — THE ANCIENT MARINER AND THE ANCIENT MERCHANT 32
- CHAPTER II. THE STORY OF CAPTAIN FORTUNATUS WRIGHT AND SELIM, THE ARMENIAN CAPTIVE 63
- CHAPTER III. PRIVATEERS OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR 110
- CHAPTER IV. PRIVATEERS OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 210
- CHAPTER V. LIVERPOOL PRIVATEERS AND LETTERS OF MARQUE SHIPS DURING THE WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 334
- CHAPTER VI. LIVERPOOL PRIVATEERS DURING THE SECOND WAR WITH AMERICA 461
- PART II. —THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE 494
- CHAPTER I. THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE, HOW IT ORIGINATED AND THRIVED 498
- CHAPTER II. CAPTAIN JOHN NEWTON 529
- CHAPTER III. THE MASSACRE AT OLD CALABAR 562
- CHAPTER IV. THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT 600
- CHAPTER V. HORRORS OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE 615
- CHAPTER VI. EMOLUMENTS OF THE TRAFFIC — A MILLIONAIRE'S VENTURES 627
- CHAPTER VII. THE CORPORATION AND THE SLAVE TRADE 642
- CHAPTER VIII. CAPTAIN HUGH CROW 661
- APPENDIX TO PRIVATEERS 694
- No. I.—List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Spaniards and French, in the War of 1739-1748 694
- No. II.—The Enterprise Privateer, Cost of Outfit, List of Owners, Officers, etc. 696
- No. III. — List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Enemy during the Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 700
- No. IV.—List of the principal Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, in the War with America, France, Spain and Holland, 1775-1783 704
- No. V.—Copy of the Letter of Marque against the French, granted in 1796 to Captain John Maciver, commander of the Swallow, private ship of war, of Liverpool 707
- APPENDIX TO SLAVE TRADE 711
- No. VI.—List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752 711
- No. VII.—List of Guineamen belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752, with Owners' and Commanders' Names, and the number of Slaves carried by each 712
- No. VIII.—The number of Ships which cleared out from the port of Liverpool, to the coast of Africa, from the earliest date to the time of the trade being abolished in May, 1807 715
- No. IX.—List of Houses that annually imported upwards of 1000 Slaves, the Number of Ships employed, and Slaves by them imported, from 1783 to 1793, showing the proportion they held to all the slave-vessels that annually sailed from the port of Liverpool during that period 715
- No. X.—List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1807 716
- No. XI.—Comparative Statement of Ships cleared out from the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, to the coast of Africa, from 1795 to 1804 717
- No. XII.—Paid for a Negro man at Bonny, in 1801 717
- No. XIII.—List of Guineamen belonging to the port of Liverpool which sailed for Africa, from the 5th of January, 1798, to the 5th of January, 1799, with Owners' and Commanders' Names and the complement of Slaves allowed to each 722
- No. XIV.—Summary of the aggregate number of Liverpool ships employed in the Guinea trade, together with the number and value of the Slaves imported to the West Indies from 1783 to 1793 722
- No. XV.—Extract from "A Log of the proceedings on board the Brigg Mampookata, on a voyage to Ambrize, on the coast of Angola," in the year 1787 723
- No. XVI.—Character of the Seamen in the Slave Trade 725
- No. XVII.—Food of the Slaves 726
- Index to Names of Persons mentioned in this Work 728
- A 728
- B 728
- C 729
- D 730
- E 730
- F 730
- G 730
- H 731
- I 732
- J 732
- K 732
- L 732
- M 733
- N 733
- O 733
- P 733
- Q 734
- R 734
- S 734
- T 735
- U 735
- V 735
- W 735
- Y 736
- Z 736
- Index to Subjects 737
- A 737
- B 738
- C 739
- D 740
- E 741
- F 741
- G 742
- H 743
- I 743
- J 744
- K 744
- L 744
- M 747
- N 748
- O 749
- P 749
- Q 750
- R 750
- S 751
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