Emma Christopher

Slave Ship Sailors Cargo 1730-1807

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the working lives of the approximately 350,000 men who labored aboard British and North American slave ships. Marrying slave trade studies to maritime history, it questions how sailors work in this most abhorrent of trades fits with their posited image as a radical, egalitarian group. It explores their relationships with African men and women of varying status, in the port cities of Britain, West Africa, the Caribbean and the American South, and especially their interactions with, and attitudes towards those they carried as their shackled cargo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780521679664
• ISBN-10: 0521679664
• Artikelnr.: 21282671

Autorenporträt

Emma Christopher is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Historical Studies, Monash University. She has held fellowships from Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut; the Huntington Library, California; the National Maritime Museum in London; and the Atlantic World Center at Harvard University. She has published articles in Atlantic Studies, the Journal of Australian Colonial Studies, and the Times Higher Education Supplement. She has travelled extensively in many parts of the world, including wide-ranging travels around areas of West Africa and the Caribbean mentioned in this work.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Sailors and Slave Ships: 1. Slaving merchants and merchant seamen
2. The multiracial crews of slave ships
3. The bloody rise of Western freedom
Part II. The Slaving Voyage: 4. Life in the white man's grave
5. Sea changes
6. Lives for sale
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Black sailors on Liverpool slave ships, 1794-1805
Appendix 2. Black sailors on Bristol slave ships, 1748-95
Appendix 3. Black sailors on Rhode Island slave ships, 1803-7.