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Predator Of The Seas A History Of The Slaveship That Fought For Emancipation Stephen Taylor

Name: Predator Of The Seas A History Of The Slaveship That Fought For Emancipation Stephen Taylor
SKU: BELL-61982224
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Predator Of The Seas A History Of The Slaveship That Fought For Emancipation Stephen Taylor instant download after payment.

Publisher: Yale University Press

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 9.36 MB

Pages: 368

Author: Stephen Taylor

ISBN: 9780300280685, 9780300263992, 0300263996, 0300280688

Language: English

Year: 2024

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Predator Of The Seas A History Of The Slaveship That Fought For Emancipation Stephen Taylor by Stephen Taylor 9780300280685, 9780300263992, 0300263996, 0300280688 instant download after payment.

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter—which brings new insights into Britain's involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people
In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltimore clipper and renamed her the Black Joke. Assigned to the Preventative Squadron, she patrolled the west coast of Africa and freed 3,692 captives from enslavement. Beloved by seafarers and celebrated by the public, the Black Joke would become the most famous weapon in the campaign for abolition.
But in her previous life as the Henriqueta, the Black Joke had been a slave ship.
Through the experiences of slavers and abolitionists, captives and crew, Stephen Taylor charts the vessel's extraordinary double life. As the Henriqueta she operated as an engine of atrocity, trafficking over 3,000 captives to plantations in Brazil. But subsequently manned by British seamen and Liberian Kru, the Black Joke...