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A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica [electronic resource] : the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mouser, Bruce L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gamble, Samuel.
- History.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--England--History--18th century.
- Slave trade--History--18th century--England--Sources.
- Slave trade--History--18th century--Africa.
- Slave trade--History--18th century--Jamaica.
- Slave trade--History.
- Sandown (Ship).
- Gamble, Samuel, active 1793-1794.
- Local Subjects:
- Gamble, Samuel.
- History.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--England--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Other Title:
- Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa.... [Mouser's] exhaustive background research and editing are exemplary."" -- George BrooksCaptain Samuel Gamble's log contains the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive. Bruce Mouser's faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log provides a hau
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Introduction; Maps and Illustrations; A Journal of an Intended Voyage, by Gods permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good Ship Sandow; Works Cited; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-06292-1
- 9786612062926
- 0-253-10895-0
- OCLC:
- 56635729
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