The Logbooks: Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory

by Anne Farrow

Book Overview

Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting

In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819573051
• ISBN13: 9780819573056
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"