A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica
Subtitle: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780253340771
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Slavery & emancipation; c 1700 to c 1800; 18th Century World History; Slavery; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Africa; Africa - General; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Modern - 18th Century; Sociology - General; 18th century; England; Gamble, Samuel,; History; Jamaica; Sandown (Ship); Slave trade; fl. 1793-1794
First sentence: don Foreign Trade, 159, the Sandown was described as "foreign built &amp; was stranded in Sandown Bay at the back of the Isle of Wight in Jan. 1789 &amp; having since been repaired in the proportion required by Law as Reg No. 619 in pursuance of an Order of the Hon{ora}ble Comm' of his Ma{jes}tys Customs dated 1st Feb 1787."
Description: "Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica. It is one of the best first-hand narratives of the slave trade to survive. This book presents a faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log, which provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the eighteenth 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 to 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 the beginnings and spread of a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Bruce L.

Mouser's extensive annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble's observations of commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast."--BOOK JACKET.