

"Slave Ships and Slaving" is an extensive and detailed chronicle of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing specifically on the vessels and the maritime operations that facilitated this dark chapter of history. George Francis Dow meticulously documents the construction, layout,...

"Slave Ships and Slaving" is an extensive and detailed chronicle of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing specifically on the vessels and the maritime operations that facilitated this dark chapter of history. George Francis Dow meticulously documents the construction, layout,...




Extraordinary collection of commentaries by ships' doctors and captains, as well as written testimonies for a parliamentary committee investigating the slave trade. Accounts relate horrifying events and conditions: the holding pens or "factories," living conditions aboard ships,...


Extraordinary collection of commentaries by ships' doctors and captains, as well as written testimonies for a parliamentary committee investigating the slave trade. Accounts relate horrifying events and conditions: the holding pens or "factories," living conditions aboard ships,...
