Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships write by Lynn Brenda Harris. This book was released on 2022-05-18. Excavating the Histories of Slave-Trade and Pirate Ships available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume brings new perspectives on the topic maritime archaeology of the slave trade in the Caribbean. The book focuses on shipwrecks of the slave trade in the 18th century and suggests that there is a more complex and challenging social narrative than has previously been discussed. The authors examine biographies of ships, crew members, voyage logs, cargo inventories, trader correspondence and contextual analysis of the artifact assemblages to bring new insights into the microeconomics and maritime traditions of these floating prisons. The illustrious biography of Captain Edward Thache (aka Blackbeard) reveals past identities as a naval officer, slave trader, and pirate. Categories of artifacts in archaeological collections represent cultural connections and traditions of enslaved Africans. The volume includes several case studies that inform these narratives and examines slave ships such as la Concorde, Henrietta Marie, Whydah, La Marie Seraphique and Marquis de Bouillé. Within the larger context of slave trade during the 18th century, authors explore legal and illegal trade in the British West Indies. These studies also address the plethora of social, political, and environmental impacts on these island communities that played an integral and strategic role in slave trade economics. This volume presents up-to-date research of professional maritime historians, artifact curators, and marine archaeologists drawing upon primary source documents, artwork, and material culture. The research collaborators reconstruct the international spheres of colonial North America, Europe, Africa, and West Indies. It is an interwoven narrative, both unique and typical, to the social and economic dynamics of 18th century Atlantic World.
Real Pirates
Real Pirates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Real Pirates write by Barry Clifford. This book was released on 2008. Real Pirates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Profiles the ship Whidah, including who sailed it, where it sailed, and why it sailed, and what happened to it.
The Black Joke
The Black Joke - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Joke write by A.E. Rooks. This book was released on 2022-01-18. The Black Joke available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade. The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria’s England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the ship’s diverse crew and dedicated commanders would capture more ships and liberate more enslaved people than any other in the Squadron. Now, author A.E. Rooks chronicles the adventures on this ship and its crew in a brilliant, lively narrative of the history of Britain’s suppression efforts. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to the Black Joke and those that sailed with it as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. In this history of the daring feats of a single ship, the abolition of the international slave trade is revealed as an inexplicably extended exercise involving tense negotiations between many national powers, both colonizers and formerly colonized, that would stretch on for decades longer than it should have. Harrowing and heartbreaking, The Black Joke is a crucial and deeply compelling work of history, both as a reckoning with slavery and abolition and as a lesson about the power of political will—or the lack thereof.
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves write by Kevin P. McDonald. This book was released on 2015-03-13. Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies. Rather than conducting their commerce through chartered companies based in London or Lisbon, colonial merchants in New York entered into an alliance with Euro-American pirates based in Madagascar. Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves explores the resulting global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods. The book reveals that pirates played a significant yet misunderstood role in this period and that seafaring slaves were both commodities and essential components in the Indo-Atlantic maritime networks. Enlivened by stories of Indo-Atlantic sailors and cargoes that included textiles, spices, jewels and precious metals, chinaware, alcohol, and drugs, this book links previously isolated themes of piracy, colonialism, slavery, transoceanic networks, and cross-cultural interactions and extends the boundaries of traditional Atlantic, national, world, and colonial histories.
Slave Ship
Slave Ship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slave Ship write by George Sullivan. This book was released on 1994. Slave Ship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes a slave ship that sank near Florida in the early 1700s and the underwater archaeological excavation. While giving details on the underwater archaeological exploration of the slave ship Henrietta Marie that sunk off Florida in the 1700s, the author supplies many details on the slave trade.
