Dark voyage : an American privateer's war on Britain's African slave trade

Dark voyage : an American privateer's war on Britain's African slave trade

Yardley, PA : Westholme Publishing, 2022.

xiv, 360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. facsims. ; 23 cm.

306.362 M118 2022

(OCoLC)1285123104

At the start of the American war of independence, Great Britain dominated overseas commerce and was the leading slave-trading nation in the world. In 1776, American privateersprivately owned ships granted commissions by the Continental Congress to attack and disrupt enemy tradebegan to prey on British merchantmen. Some privateers captured British slave ships with African captives on board just before they arrived at their Caribbean Island destinations. The Journal of the Good Ship Marlborough, the story of this remarkable voyage is told here for the first time and will have a major impact on our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and the American Revolution. The voyage of the Marlborough was the brainchild of John Brown, a prominent Rhode Island merchant--and an investor in two slave trading voyages himself. The motivation was not altruistic. The officers and crew of the Marlborough wanted to advance the cause of independence from Britain through harming Britains economy, but they also desired to enrich themselves by selling the plunder they capturedincluding enslaved Africans ...--Provided by the publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-340) and index.
L2022M71

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