Slave Captain

Author : Suzanne Schwarz
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781388419

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Slave Captain by Suzanne Schwarz Pdf

As few accounts written by slave ship captains are known to have survived, the personal papers of James Irving are of tremendous interest and academic significance. Irving built a successful career in the slave trade of eighteenth-century Liverpool, first as a ship’s surgeon and then as a captain. Remarkably he was himself enslaved when his ship was wrecked off the coast of Morocco and he was captured by people described as ‘wild Arabs’ and ‘savages’. This edition of forty letters and his journal reveals the reaction of the slaver to the experience of slavery, as well as throwing light on the complex and, to modern eyes, repugnant features of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is both a compelling narrative and a valuable reference text. This thoroughly revised edition of Suzanne Schwarz’s best-selling book includes recently discovered archive material.

Author : Suzanne Schwarz
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846310676

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Slave Captain by Suzanne Schwarz Pdf

One of the very few firsthand accounts written by a Liverpool slave ship captain to have survived, this unique and fascinating primary source navigates the reader through the remarkable story of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship captain who was shipwrecked off the coast of Morocco and subsequently enslaved. Schwarz skillfully supplements Irving’s personal journal and letters with useful notes, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in the relationship between the slave trade and the British Empire. Slave Captain is a compelling narrative that will be welcomed by the general reader and scholars alike.

Author : John Newton
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848320796

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Slaver Captain by John Newton Pdf

John Newton is now best remembered as an Anglican clergyman and the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. For the first thirty years of his life, however, he was engrossed in the slave trade. His father planned for him to take up a position as slave master on a West Indies plantation but he was instead pressed into the Royal Navy where, after attempting to desert, he was captured and flogged round the fleet. After this humiliation he was placed in service on a slave ship bound for Sierra Leone, but there, having upset his captain and crew, he found himself the servant of the merchant’s wife, an African Duchess called Princess Peye, who abused him along with her slaves. As he wrote himself, he was ‘an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves of West Africa.’ In 1748 he was rescued and returned home and it was on this voyage that he experienced his spiritual conversion. Though avoiding profanity, women, gambling and drinking he continued in the slave trade, taking up a position on a ship bound for the West Indies and then making three further voyages as a captain of slave ships. In 1755, after suffering a severe stroke, he turned away from seafaring and pursued a path to the priesthood, becoming the curate at Olney in 1764. His Authentic Narrative, as it was called, is a remarkable, no-holds-barred account of the African slave trade, as well as an account of his struggle between religion and the flesh.

Author : John Dignan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017503419

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The Slave Captain by John Dignan Pdf

Author : Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788027240463

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Captain Canot - Twenty Years of an African Slave Ship (Autobiographical Account) by Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot Pdf

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : UOMDLP:aev4007:0001.001

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Captain Canot by Theodore Canot Pdf

Author : Brantz Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : NYPL:33433075802128

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Captain Canot, Or, Twenty Years of an African Slavery by Brantz Mayer Pdf

Author : Theophilus Conneau,Brantz Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : OXFORD:600052813

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Captain Canot; or, Twenty years of an African slaver, by B. Mayer by Theophilus Conneau,Brantz Mayer Pdf

Author : Joseph Autustus Moloney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0036706353

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With Captain Stairs to Katanga by Joseph Autustus Moloney Pdf

Author : Ron Soodalter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1416522921

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Hanging Captain Gordon by Ron Soodalter Pdf

On a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But with the country embroiled in a civil war and Abraham Lincoln at the helm, a sea change was taking place. Gordon, in the wrong place at the wrong time, got caught up in the wave. For the first time, Hanging Captain Gordon chronicles the trial and execution of the only man in history to face conviction for slave trading -- exploring the many compelling issues and circumstances that led to one man paying the price for a crime committed by many. Filled with sharply drawn characters, Soodalter's vivid account sheds light on one of the more shameful aspects of our history and provides a link to similar crimes against humanity still practiced today.

Author : Hugh Crow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015074266415

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The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow by Hugh Crow Pdf

Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depicts himself as an enlightened practitioner of the trade, paying close attention to the welfare of his 'negroes', which he equates with financial success in his business.Crow's memoirs bring to life the everyday aspects of the slave trade and describe the harsh practicalities of life at sea, where on average a fifth of the crew did not survive the crossing. The narrative is peppered with social comment on the propriety of the slave trade and conditions in West Africa and the Caribbean. At the same time, Crow expresses a warm attachment towards individual slaves which was sometimes reciprocated, most remarkably in a song composed by the slaves about him which is reproduced in this book.The introduction chronicles Hugh Crow's life, his entry into the slave trade and his rise as one of the foremost slave captains of his day. Quoting extensively from original sources, it sets him in the context of the eighteenth-century mercantile community which fought hard to defend itself against the humanitarian campaign to abolish the slave trade. He emerges as a colourful if flawed figure from this highly practical, personal, and eye-opening look at the slave trade.

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781605206660

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Captain Canot, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Theodore Canot Pdf

Sometimes published as *Adventures of an African Slaver,* this replica of the 1854 first edition restores its original title. All of its unique power remains intact. Adapted from the journals, memoranda, and conversations of French-Italian seafarer and notorious slaver CAPTAIN THEODORE CANOT (1804-1860), this vivid and unexaggerated depiction of the slave trade between Africa and the New World is prized as a firsthand account of every aspect of the industry, from how slaves are purchased to the first reactions of newly arrived slaves to the New World and beyond. Explicit and shocking, this volume is also a startling illustration of the racist attitudes of its day, from Canot's justifications for the slave trade to the introduction by American journalist BRANTZ MAYER (1809-1879), who compiled Canot's material for publication and defended his subject's work. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American slavery.

Author : Carolyn Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : UCAL:B4008588

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Slave Ship Captain by Carolyn Scott Pdf

Author : Captain Theodore Canot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1639238859

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Adventures of an African Slaver by Captain Theodore Canot Pdf

Grim account by a former slave ship captain describes the apalling machinery of the commercial slave trade, including the harems and "factories" maintained by slavers, treatment and discipline of black Africans on slave ships, the suppression of slave revolts at sea, and much more. Republication of the classic 1854 edition.

Author : John Dignan
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230302700

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The Slave Captain by John Dignan Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. Hamlet. And thus, as in memory's bark we shall glide To visit the scenes of our boyhood anew-- Though oft we may see, looking down on the tide, The wreck of full many a hope shining through. Yet still, as in fancy we point to the flowers, That once made a garden of all the gay shore, Deceived for a moment, we'll think them still onrs, And breathe the fresh air of life's morning once more. Moose's Irish Melodies. A stylish equipage drew up opposite the shop of a fashionable perfumer in St. Paul's Church-yard at the moment when Captain Carlos was passing, his limbs cold and crippled with the long journey he had just performed. The steps of the carriage were let down by the footman in attendance; an elegantly dressed man descended, ran heedlessly forward, and stumbling by an unlucky mischance over the stick of the old sailor, fell prostrate on the pavement. On springing to his feet, he angrily accused Captain Carlos of having tripped him designedly, and burning with mortification at the ridiculous exhibition he had made in the eyes of the lady, still seated in the vehicle, gave the unfortunate old man into the custody of a minion of the law, who was attracted to the spot by the crowd that instantly gathered round. Authority has little sympathy with offending poverty, and without waiting to investigate the facts of the case, the civic functionary conducted his prisoner to the stationhouse. In an hour after his arrival in London, poor Carlos found himself the inmate of the city lockup, there to pass the night with such emotions as his position were likely to awaken. Next morning he was brought before the bench. The gentleman was not in attendance, but his...