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Slave Captain : the Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade.
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 ships surgeon and then as a captain. Re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 50.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 ships 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781846314070 1846314070 |