A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica : the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 / Bruce L. Mouser.

By:

Mouser, Bruce L

Contributor(s):

Gamble, Samuel, active 1793-1794. Journal of an intended voyage, by God's permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown

Publication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.Description: xxii, 156 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0253340772
9780253340771

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica.DDC classification:

380.1/44/094 21

LOC classification:

HT1162 .M68 2002

Other classification:

15.59
RS 10835

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Contents:

A journal of an intended voyage, by God's permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown by me Samuel Gamble Commander.

Summary: "Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica. It is one of the best first-hand narratives of the slave trade to survive. This book presents a faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log, which provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the eighteenth century. Gamble was Captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793-1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and to transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well the beginnings and spread of a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Bruce L. Mouser's extensive annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble's observations of commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast."--Jacket.

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Based on Samuel Gamble's ship's log entitled 'A journal of an intended voyage, by God's permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown" by me Samuel Gamble Commander.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-133) and index.

A journal of an intended voyage, by God's permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown by me Samuel Gamble Commander.

"Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship's log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica. It is one of the best first-hand narratives of the slave trade to survive. This book presents a faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log, which provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the eighteenth century. Gamble was Captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793-1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and to transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well the beginnings and spread of a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Bruce L. Mouser's extensive annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble's observations of commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast."--Jacket.

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