History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque - With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade

Klappentext The methods, exploits and profits of privateers and slave traders who fuelled the growth of early modern Liverpool. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 1897! examines two important factors in the growth of Liverpool as a major port during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: privateering and the slave trade. It contains primary source material including extracts from letters and newspaper reports! and discusses practicalities! costs and profits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Privateering: 1. A peep behind the scenes; 2. The story of Captain Fortunatus Wright and Selim, the Armenian captive; 3. Privateers of the Seven Years' War; 4. Privateers of the American War of Independence; 5. Liverpool privateers and letters of marque ships during the wars of the French Revolution; 6. Liverpool privateers during the second war with America; Part II. The Liverpool Slave Trade: 1. The Liverpool slave trade, how it originated and thrived; 2. Captain John Newton; 3. The massacre at Old Calabar; 4. The abolition movement; 5. Horrors of the middle passage; 6. Emoluments of the traffic. A millionaire's ventures; 7. The corporation and the slave trade; 8. Captain Hugh Crow; Appendixes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Gomer Williams, Williams Gomer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9781108026277
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02627-7
• No. of pages: 748
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Lancashire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Slavery & abolition of slavery, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Slavery and abolition of slavery