Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807

Illustrations		page vii
Abbreviations		ix
Acknowledgements		xi
Preface		xiii
	Introduction	1
PART 1 SAILORS AND SLAVE SHIPS
1	Slaving Merchants and Merchant Seamen	23
2	The Multiracial Crews of Slave Ships	51
3	The Bloody Rise of Western Freedom	91
PART 2 THE SLAVING VOYAGE
4	Life in the White Man’s Grave	125
5	Sea Changes	163
6	Lives for Sale	195
	Conclusion	226
Appendix 1 Black Sailors on Liverpool Slave Ships, 1794–1805		231
Appendix 2 Black Sailors on Bristol Slave Ships, 1748–1795		234
Appendix 3 Black Sailors on Rhode Island Slave Ships, 1803–1807		236
Index		239

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