Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807

(Paper US$21.99) Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 is Emma Christopher's ambitious attempt to fill a significant gap in the historical literature on the eighteenth-century transatlantic slave trade. Christopher makes careful use of sailors' journals, Admiralty Court r...

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Published in:New West Indian Guide 2008, Vol.82 (3/4), p.282-284
Main Author: Andrews, Edward E.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
18th century
Admiralty
Historians
Scholarship
Slave trade
Slavery
Working conditions
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Summary:(Paper US$21.99) Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 is Emma Christopher's ambitious attempt to fill a significant gap in the historical literature on the eighteenth-century transatlantic slave trade. Christopher makes careful use of sailors' journals, Admiralty Court records, newspaper reports, and other printed material to build on the scholarship of W. Jeffrey Bolster, Marcus Rediker, and others (see, for example, Bolster 1997, Rediker 1987, and Linebaugh & Rediker 2000). [...]Christopher is at her best when discussing the sexual interactions between slavers and African women.
ISSN:1382-2373
2213-4360