Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521861625
Subjects: Maritime History; Slavery & emancipation; c 1700 to c 1800; Merchant mariners; History - General History; History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Slave trade; Slavery; History / Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Africa; Slaves
First sentence: In 1775, Liverpool, Britain's major slave trading port, was wracked with protests against slaving merchants.