Slave Ship Captain

Author : John Newton
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440620843

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The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker Pdf

“Masterly.”—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the "floating dungeons" at the forefront of the birth of African American culture.

Author : Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
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 : Carolyn Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:15271015

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Slave Ship Captain by Carolyn Scott Pdf

John Newton, a former sea merchant who transported slaves from Africa to the New World, had a life-altering experience and became a minister working for the abolition of slavery. He also wrote many hymns including "Amazing Grace."

Author : Suzanne Schwarz
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Captain Theodore Canot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Africa
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172017358388

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

Author : Tom Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1708157239

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Macumba by Tom Norton Pdf

The backdrop of the story, "Macumba, Slave Ship Captain," is the slave trade during the eighteenth century when hundreds of thousands of African Negroes were rounded up and taken to the Americas under hideous conditions in slave ships. The story is about one of these slaves who was a village chief and with his people, staged a revolt on a Spanish slave ship heading for Brazil. The result of this revolt was over two hundred slaves being aboard a large square rig sail ship after the crew had been killed, and not knowing how to sail the ship, or in what direction. The ship was under full sail and at the mercy of the wind. Due to circumstances over which they had no control, the slave ship beached on an African beach far from their home villages with no means for them to get back to their villages. It is a story of hunger, thirst, slavery, and battles with muskets, spears and cannons. An encounter with a Dutch pirate ship and its captain resulted in Chief Macumba becoming a pirate captain with a Negro slave crew and many instances of danger at sea and in the lion country of Africa.

Author : Brantz Mayer
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429015004

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Captain Canot by Brantz Mayer Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Ben Raines
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982136154

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The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines Pdf

The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts. Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey in modern-day Benin, Raines recounts the ship’s perilous journey, the story of its rediscovery, and its complex legacy. Against all odds, Africatown, the Alabama community founded by the captives of the Clotilda, prospered in the Jim Crow South. Zora Neale Hurston visited in 1927 to interview Cudjo Lewis, telling the story of his enslavement in the New York Times bestseller Barracoon. And yet the haunting memory of bondage has been passed on through generations. Clotilda is a ghost haunting three communities—the descendants of those transported into slavery, the descendants of their fellow Africans who sold them, and the descendants of their fellow American enslavers. This connection binds these groups together to this day. At the turn of the century, descendants of the captain who financed the Clotilda’s journey lived nearby—where, as significant players in the local real estate market, they disenfranchised and impoverished residents of Africatown. From these parallel stories emerges a profound depiction of America as it struggles to grapple with the traumatic past of slavery and the ways in which racial oppression continues to this day. And yet, at its heart, The Last Slave Ship remains optimistic—an epic tale of one community’s triumphs over great adversity and a celebration of the power of human curiosity to uncover the truth about our past and heal its wounds.

Author : Theodore Canot,Brantz Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1436682010

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Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory and Slaves on the Coast of Guinea by Theodore Canot,Brantz Mayer 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 Kimber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11655776

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The Trial of Captain John Kimber by John Kimber Pdf

Author : Theodore Canot
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613892178

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Slave Ship Captain by Carolyn Scott Pdf

A short, straightforward biography of John Newton (1725-1807), whose experiences as captain of a slave ship led him to join the ministry and campaign against the evils of slavery. For 9-13 year olds.

Author : Theophilus Conneau,Brantz Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 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