History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812,9780773527461

History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812

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ISBN13: 9780773527461
ISBN10: 077352746X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-12-01
Publisher(s): McGill Queens Univ
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Introduction, 2004 xiii
David Eltis
Preface xxv
PART I. --- PRIVATEERING
A Peep Behind the Scenes --- The Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Merchant
1(31)
The Story of Captain Fortunatus Wright and Selim, the Armenian Captive
32(47)
Privateers of the Seven Years' War
79(100)
Privateers of the American War of Independence
179(124)
Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque Ships During the Wars of the French Revolution
303(127)
Liverpool Privateers During the Second War with America
430(35)
PART II. --- THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE
The Liverpool Slave Trade, how it Originated and Thrived
465(31)
Captain John Newton
496(33)
The Massacre at Old Calabar
529(38)
The Abolition Movement
567(15)
Horrors of the Middle Passage
582(12)
Emoluments of the Traffic --- A Millionaire's Ventures
594(15)
The Corporation and the Slave Trade
609(17)
Captain Hugh Crow
626(65)
APPENDIX TO PRIVATEERS
List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Spaniards and French, in the War of 1739-1748
659(2)
The Enterprise Privateer, Cost of Outfit, List of Owners, Officers, etc.
661(4)
List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Enemy during the Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
665(2)
List of the principal Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, in the War with America, France, Spain and Holland, 1775-1783
667(3)
Copy of the Letter of Marque against the French, granted in 1796 to Captain John Maciver, commander of the Swallow, private ship of war, of Liverpool
670(4)
APPENDIX TO SLAVE TRADE
List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752
674(1)
List of Guineamen belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752, with Owners' and Commanders' Names, and the number of Slaves carried by each
675(3)
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
678(1)
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
678(1)
List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1807
679(1)
Comparative Statement of Ships cleared out from the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, to the coast of Africa, from 1795 to 1804
680(1)
Paid for a Negro man at Bonny, in 1801
680(1)
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, with Owners' and Commanders' Names and the complement of Slaves allowed to each
681(4)
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
685(1)
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
686(2)
Character of the Seamen in the Slave Trade
688(1)
Food of the Slaves
689(2)
Index to Names of Persons mentioned in this Work 691(9)
Index to Subjects 700

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