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A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica - The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 (Hardcover, Annotated) Loot Price: R857
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A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica - The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 (Hardcover, Annotated): Bruce L. Mouser

A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica - The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 (Hardcover, Annotated)

Bruce L. Mouser

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"Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa.... Mouser s] exhaustive background research and editing are exemplary." George Brooks

Captain Samuel Gamble s log contains the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive. Bruce Mouser s faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble s log provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the 18th century. Gamble was captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793 1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Mouser s extensive annotations place Gamble s account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble s observations on commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast."

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Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2002
First published: March 2002
Editors: Bruce L. Mouser
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Edition: Annotated
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34077-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > 16th to 18th centuries
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LSN: 0-253-34077-2
Barcode: 9780253340771

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