The disastrous history of the British transportation of convicts to West Africa after the loss of the North American colonies, and before the opening of Australia as a new destination for Britan's criminal classes
The disastrous history of the British transportation of convicts to West Africa after the loss of the North American colonies, and before the opening of Australia as a new destination for Britan's criminal classes
Emma Christopher holds two Australia Research Council fellowships and is on the faculty of the Department of History at the University of Sydney. She gained her PhD from University College London in 2002 and has received grants and fellowships from the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, Harvard University's Atlantic World Center, and Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center. She has also been a Mellon Fellow at the Huntington Library in California, a Caird Fellow at the National Maritime Museum in London and a Paul Cuffe Fellow at Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut. She is the author of Slave Ship Sailors and their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1808, and the co-editor of Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Bound for America 2: Mr Jefferson and Patrick Madan 3: London in Flames 4: The "Best Sacrifices for Death" 5: Africa 6: The Battle for the Coast 7: Deserting to the Enemy 8: A Plantation with Slaves 9: A Mutiny and a Most Peculiar Murder 10: Trouble at Goree Island 11: 'Naked and Diseased on the Sandy Shore' 12: Trying America Again 13: The Once Mighty are Fallen 14: Lemane Island
1: Bound for America 2: Mr Jefferson and Patrick Madan 3: London in Flames 4: The "Best Sacrifices for Death" 5: Africa 6: The Battle for the Coast 7: Deserting to the Enemy 8: A Plantation with Slaves 9: A Mutiny and a Most Peculiar Murder 10: Trouble at Goree Island 11: 'Naked and Diseased on the Sandy Shore' 12: Trying America Again 13: The Once Mighty are Fallen 14: Lemane Island
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