Sweet water and bitter
Subtitle: the ships that stopped the slave trade
By: Siân Rees.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780701181598
Subjects: Great Britain. -- Royal Navy. -- African Squadron; Slavery -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century; Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Emancipation -- History -- 19th century; Freedmen -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century
Description: When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to 'repatriate' freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. 'Is it possible', asked Ottobah Cugoano, biblically, 'that a fountain should send forth both sweet water and bitter?' Could the slave trade be abolished from West Africa when West Africa was its source?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.