History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque : with an account of the Liverpool slave trade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Gomer.

Series:

Reprints of economic classics.

Reprints of economic classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privateering.

Slave trade--England--Liverpool.

Slave trade.

Liverpool (England)--History, Naval.

Liverpool (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (756 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Readers should not forget what is as hard to appreciate today in the case of slave trading as it was over a hundred years ago when Gomer Williams wrote his book - that both were legitimate endeavours in the eyes of domestic and emerging international law, and, more important, neither was viewed as in any way immoral: before the late eighteenth century, slave trading and privateering were seen as indistinguishable from trading in Baltic timber or Canadian furs." David Eltis, from the new introduction, 2004.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List Of Illustrations

Introduction, 2004

Preface

History Of The Liverpool Privateers And Letters Of Marque, &c.

A Peep Behind The Scenes–The Ancient Mariner And The Ancient Merchant

The Story Of Captain Fortunatus Wright And Selim The Armenian Captive

Privateers Of The Seven Years’ War

Privateers Of The American War Of Independence

Liverpool Privateers And Letter Of Marque Ships During The Wars Of The French Revolution

Liverpool Privateers During The Second War With America

The Liverpool Slave Trade

How It Originated And Thrived

Captain John Newton

The Massacre At Old Calabar

The Abolition Movement

Horrors Of The Middle Passage

Emoluments Of The Traffic–A Millionaire’S Ventures

The Corporation And The Slave Trade

Captain Hugh Crow

List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Spaniards and French, in the War of 1739-1748

The Enterprise Privateer, Cost of Outfit, List of Owners, Officers, &c. September 1779

List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Enemy during the Seven Years’ War, 1756-1763

List of the principal Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque in the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland (1775-83)

The Swallow, Letter of Marque Against the French, Dated 12th July 1796

Appendix To Slave Trade Section

List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752

A List Of The Guineamen Belonging To Liverpool In The Year 1752, with their Owners’ and Commanders’ names and the number of slaves carried by each

The number of ships which cleared out from the port of Liverpool to the coast of Africa, from the earliest date to the time of the trade being abolished in May, 1807

List of Houses that annually imported upwards of 1000 Slaves, the Number of Ships employed, and Slaves by them imported, from 1783 to 1793, showing the proportion they held to all the slave-vessels that annually sailed from the port of Liverpool during- that period

List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1807

Comparative Statement of Ships cleared out from the Ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, to the Coast of Africa, for ten years, from 1795 to 1804 inclusive

Paid for a Negro man at Bonny, in 1801

List Of Guineamen Belonging To The Port Of Liverpool Which Sailed For Africa, from the 5th of January, 1798, to the 5th of January, 1799

Summary of the aggregate number of Liverpool ships employed in the Guinea trade, together with the number and value of the slaves imported to the West Indies from 1783 to 1793

Extract from “A Log of the proceedings on board the Brigg Mampookata, on a voyage to Ambrize, on the coast of Angola,” in the year 1787

Character Of The Seamen In The Slave Trade

Food Of The Slaves

Index To Names Of Persons Mentioned In This Work

Index To Subjects

Notes:

Reprint of the first ed., 1897.

ISBN:

1-282-86199-9

9786612861994

0-7735-7209-0

OCLC:

144085921