Edition |
Rev. 2nd ed. |
Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : maps. |
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text file |
Series |
Liverpool English texts and studies ; no. 50
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Liverpool English texts and studies ; no. 50.
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Note |
Originally published in 1995 by Bridge Books. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index. |
Summary |
As few accounts written by slave ship captains are known to have survived, the personal papers of James Irving are of tremendous interest and academic significance. Irving built a successful career in the slave trade of eighteenth-century Liverpool, first as a ship?s surgeon and then as a captain. Remarkably he was himself enslaved when his ship was wrecked off the coast of Morocco and he was captured by people described as "wild Arabs" and "savages". This edition of forty letters and his journal reveals the reaction of the slaver to the experience of slavery, as well as throwing light on the. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Irving, James, 1759-1791.
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Irving, James, 1759-1791. |
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Irving, James, 1759-1791. |
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Slave trade -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade. |
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England -- Liverpool. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
Subject |
Slave traders -- England -- Liverpool -- Biography.
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Slave traders. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Slave traders -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 18th century.
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Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
Schwarz, Suzanne.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Slave captain. Rev. 2nd ed. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008 9781846310676 (OCoLC)154689953 |
ISBN |
9781846314070 (electronic book) |
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1846314070 (electronic book) |
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1846310679 |
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9781846310676 |
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