Sweet Water and Bitter : The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade /

"In 1807, at the height of the Napoleonic war, ships of nearly all the European nations crowded the malarial wharves of West Africa where merchants traded at the great slaveholding pens and packed their human property into the holds of ships bound for the sugar mills of Cuba and Haiti, and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rees, Siân, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Royal Navy. > African Squadron.
Slaves > Emancipation.
Slavery.
Slave trade.
Freed persons > Social conditions.
Affranchis > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Freed persons > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slaves > Emancipation > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
West Africa.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire navale > 19e siecle.
Great Britain > History, Naval > 19th century.
Naval history.
History.
Nonfiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Black bounty
  • Unlawful force
  • False papers and mongrel vessels
  • Bad blood
  • The Fever, the Deys and the Ashanti
  • Two captains
  • Two lieutenants
  • A costly grave
  • Cuban customs, Brazilian Buccaneers
  • Black jokes and high jinks
  • The first great blows
  • Willing promoters and partial remedies
  • Blockade
  • Commerce, Christianity and civilisation
  • Palaver and presents
  • Habits not ornamental to the navy
  • Persevering offenders
  • To an end, immediately and forever.

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