Slave Captain : The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade

Schwarz, Suzanne (EDT)

Liverpool Univ Pr（2008/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781846310676
• DDC分類 941

Full Description

As few accounts written by slave ship captains are known to have survived, the personal papers of James Irving are of tremendous interest and academic significance. Irving built a successful career in the slave trade of eighteenth-century Liverpool, first as a ship's surgeon and then as a captain. Remarkably he was himself enslaved when his ship was wrecked off the coast of Morocco and he was captured by people described as `wild Arabs' and `savages'. This edition of forty letters and his journal reveals the reaction of the slaver to the experience of slavery, as well as throwing light on the complex and, to modern eyes, repugnant features of the transatlantic slave trade. The result is both a compelling narrative and a valuable reference text. This thoroughly revised edition of Suzanne Schwarz's best-selling book includes recently discovered archive material.

Contents

List of Illustrations, Maps and TablesPreface to the Second EditionThe Documents and Editorial ConventionsList of AbbreviationsI. James Irving's Career1. Introduction2. Early Career in the Liverpool Slave Trade3. Irving's Voyages in the Transatlantic Slave Trade4. Shipwreck and Enslavement5. Freedom and Return to England6. ConclusionII. James Irving's Correspondence, 1786-1791III. Journal of James Irving's Shipwreck and Enslavement, May 1789-Octorber 1790A `Short Account' by James Irving II, June-October 1789NotesBibliographyIndex