Murder on the middle passage : the trial of Captain Kimber /
On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Recovery, a slave ship from Bristol, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year old female slave to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbrigde, Suffolk :
The Boydell Press,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ship shape, Bristol fashion
- The accusation
- The man and his crew
- The trial
- Abolition and revolution
- Afterthoughts.