THE FORGOTTEN TRADE
Written by Nigel Tattersfield
Published by Jonathan Cape
in 1991
ISBN: 0224029150
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- SLAVERY
- MARITIME
THE FORGOTTEN TRADE
Written by Nigel Tattersfield.
Stock no. 2124207
1st.
1991.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Comprising the log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade from the Minor Ports of England, 1698-1725. With a foreword by John Fowles. ISBN: 0224029150. Pages are browned. Wrapper is edge-creased with faded spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Spelling and Punctuation
- A Note on Dates and Currency
- Part One
- The Logbook of the Daniel and Henry of Exeter, 1700
- 1 An Introduction to the Slave Trade
- 2 Merchants versus Monopoly
- 3 Background to the Voyage
- 4 Slave Ship Cargoes
- 5 A description of the Daniel and Henry
- 6 The Voyage Out
- 7 Africa and the Africans
- 8 Forts, Factors and Fraud
- 9 Along the Guinea Coast
- 10 The Financial Reckoning
- 11 The Middle Passage
- 12 Jamaica Bound
- 13 Counting the Cost
- Part Two
- Merchants, Mariners and Ports in the Provincial English Slave Trade of the Early Eighteenth Century
- 14 A Lawful Calling?
- 15 Berwick to Weymouth
- 16 Lyme Regis
- 17 Exeter, Topsham and Dartmouth
- 18 Plymouth, Barnstable and Bideford
- 19 Falmouth to Lancaster
- 20 Whitehaven
- 21 The Re-export Trade in Slaves
- Appendices
- Glossary of Trade Terms
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index