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Sins of the fathers : the Atlantic slave trade, 1441-1807 / James Pope-Hennessy.
LIBRA Rare HT985 .P6 2000 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope-Hennessy, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--History--Sources.
- Slave trade.
- Slave traders--Diaries.
- Slave traders.
- Slave traders--Correspondence.
- History.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- History.
- Personal correspondence.
- Sources.
- Correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Phoenix Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Based on the journals and letters of slave traders, merchant seamen, and sometimes the slaves themselves, this is a passionate yet harrowing account of life in the African trading ports, aboard the slave ships, at the New World markets, and on the West Indian plantations. With a wealth of well-chosen detail, it revives and recreates the Atlantic slave trade from its origins in the 15th century to its gradual dissolution in the early 1800s.
- Contents:
- "And the candles would not burn"
- How curiosity became geometry
- The gates of mercy
- Down the Guinea coast
- The Castle of the Mine
- A snake in the roof-tree
- Westward ho!
- The Sugar Islands
- "The attractive African meteor"
- Who sold whom?
- Night thoughts
- Foggy mornings at Aqua Landing
- The great column of blood
- An obstinate hill
- Better late than never?
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.
- Paperback edition published in 2000 by Phoenix Press.
- "Cover: Cargo of newly released slaves on board HMS London, c. 1880 ..."
- "Cover design: Andrea Purdie."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 1842121782 :
- 9781842121788
- OCLC:
- 65405572
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- Publisher description
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