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Title Slave captain : the career of James Irving in the Liverpool slave trade / edited with an introduction by Suzanne Schwarz.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008.

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Edition Rev. 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 212 pages) : maps.
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Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; no. 50
Liverpool English texts and studies ; no. 50.
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.
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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
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Subject Irving, James, 1759-1791.
Irving, James, 1759-1791.
Irving, James, 1759-1791.
Slave trade -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 18th century.
Slave trade.
England -- Liverpool.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Slave traders -- England -- Liverpool -- Biography.
Slave traders.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Slave traders -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Author Schwarz, Suzanne.
Other Form: Print version: Slave captain. Rev. 2nd ed. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008 9781846310676 (OCoLC)154689953
ISBN 9781846314070 (electronic book)
1846314070 (electronic book)
1846310679
9781846310676