ISBN: 9780224029155 - the forgotten trade: comprising the log of the daniel and henry of 1700 and accounts of the slave trade from the minor ports of england, 1698-1725 (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The chance discovery of the log of a slave ship - the "Daniel and Henry" which set sail from Dartmouth in 1700, bound for the Guinea Coast - prompted Nigel Tattersfield to make this investigation into an episode in England's provincial maritime history. After an Act of Parliament in 1698 released monopoly on trading in West Africa, respectable burghers in a dozen small provincial ports seized their chance of quick rewards from human souls. This book provides an insight into the world of these merchants who knew nothing of trading in Africa, nor of the unscrupulous tribal chiefs who readily offered men, women and children in hard bargaining for beads, alcohol, weapons and gunpowder. After months at sea, what remained alive of the human cargo, stacked in chains on platforms in sweltering heat below deck, was delivered into the hands of rich plantation owners in the West Indies and North America in exchange for sugar, cotton, rice or tobacco. The author draws on long-forgotten documents to chart how the ports of Deal, Lyme Regis, Exeter, Falmouth, Whitehaven, among others, fared both economically and morally in the frantic early years of slaving when so much was won and lost.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. xvi + 460, illus with b&w frontispiece, b&w photos in text and endpaper maps (no inscriptions).

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Comprising the log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade from the Minor Ports of England, 1698-1725. With a foreword by John Fowles. Pages are browned. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included. Illus., appendices, index; xx+460pp. orig. cloth.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Foreword by John Fowles. Tall octavo. 460pp. Illustrated. Light bumping at the spine ends, near fine in an about fine dust jacket with modest wear at the spine ends. Signed by the author and Fowles on the title page.