History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque : with an account of the Liverpool slave trade
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History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque : with an account of the Liverpool slave trade
Routledge, 2014
- : pbk
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"First published in 1897 by William Heinemann of London and Edward Howell of Liverpool"--T.p. verso
"First edition published by Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., This edition published 2013 by Routledge ... First issued in paperback 2014"--T.p. verso
"New impression 1966"--T.p. verso
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First Published in 1967. Using a number of original sources of newspapers, rare documents, magazines and records this book offers the history of Liverpool privateering and the delicate subject of the Liverpool slave trading.
Table of Contents
- Part I History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque
- Chapter I A Peep Behind the Scenes-the Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Merchant
- Chapter II The Story of Captain Fortunatus Wright and Selim the Armenian Captive
- Chapter III Privateers of the Seven Years' War
- Chapter IV Privateers of the American War of Independence
- Chapter V Liverpool Privateers and Letter of Marque Ships during the Wars of the French Revolution
- Chapter VI Liverpool Privateers During the Second War with America
- Part II The Liverpool Slave Trade
- Chapter VII How It Originated and Thrived
- Chapter VIII Captain John Newton
- Chapter IX The Massacre at Old Calabar
- Chapter X The Abolition Movement
- Chapter XI Horrors of the Middle Passage
- Chapter XII Emoluments of the Traffic-A Millionaire's Ventures
- Chapter XIII The Corporation and the Slave Trade
- Chapter XIV Captain Hugh Crow
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