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1 online resource (740 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Facsim. of ed. published: London: Heinemann, 1897. |
| Contents |
""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION, 2004""; ""PREFACE""; ""PART I. � PRIVATEERING""; ""CHAPTER I.A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES � THE ANCIENT MARINER AND THE ANCIENT MERCHANT""; ""CHAPTER II. THE STORY OF CAPTAIN FORTUNATUS WRIGHT AND SELIM, THE ARMENIAN CAPTIVE""; ""CHAPTER III. PRIVATEERS OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR""; ""CHAPTER IV. PRIVATEERS OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE""; ""CHAPTER V. LIVERPOOL PRIVATEERS AND LETTERS OF MARQUE SHIPS DURING THE WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION""; ""CHAPTER VI. LIVERPOOL PRIVATEERS DURING THE SECOND WAR WITH AMERICA"" |
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""PART II. �THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE""""CHAPTER I. THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE, HOW IT ORIGINATED AND THRIVED""; ""CHAPTER II. CAPTAIN JOHN NEWTON""; ""CHAPTER III. THE MASSACRE AT OLD CALABAR""; ""CHAPTER IV. THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT""; ""CHAPTER V. HORRORS OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE""; ""CHAPTER VI. EMOLUMENTS OF THE TRAFFIC � A MILLIONAIRE'S VENTURES""; ""CHAPTER VII. THE CORPORATION AND THE SLAVE TRADE""; ""CHAPTER VIII. CAPTAIN HUGH CROW""; ""APPENDIX TO PRIVATEERS""; ""No. I.�List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Spaniards and French, in the War of 1739-1748"" |
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""No. II.�The Enterprise Privateer, Cost of Outfit, List of Owners, Officers, etc.""""No. III. � List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Enemy during the Seven Years' War, 1756-1763""; ""No. IV.�List of the principal Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, in the War with America, France, Spain and Holland, 1775-1783""; ""No. V.�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""; ""APPENDIX TO SLAVE TRADE"" |
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""No. VI.�List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752""""No. VII.�List of Guineamen belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752, with Owners' and Commanders' Names, and the number of Slaves carried by each""; ""No. VIII.�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"" |
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""No. IX.�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""""No. X.�List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1807""; ""No. XI.�Comparative Statement of Ships cleared out from the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, to the coast of Africa, from 1795 to 1804""; ""No. XII.�Paid for a Negro man at Bonny, in 1801"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- England -- Liverpool.
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Slave trade. |
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England -- Liverpool. |
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Privateering.
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Privateering. |
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Liverpool (England) -- History, Naval.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Naval history.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, Gomer. History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2004 0853237093 (OCoLC)56799234 |
| ISBN |
9780773572096 (electronic book) |
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0773572090 (electronic book) |
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0853237093 |
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9780853237099 |
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0853237891 |
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9780853237891 |
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0773527451 |
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9780773527454 |
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077352746X |
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9780773527461 |
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