Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era

Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century.

List of contents

Abbreviations
Introduction: Hide Tides, Atlantic Waters
1. The Pilots of Pill
2. The Hazards of the Bristol Slave Trade
3. Slave Ship Sociology
4. The Unfortunate Shipwright, or the Trials of Robert Barker
5. Mutiny and Murder on Bristol's Long-Haul Ships, 1720-1770
6. Bristol Privateering in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
7. The Impressment of James Caton, 1779
8. New York in Bristol: the Crugers
9. The Politics of Abolition in Late Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Bibliography

About the author

NICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto and author of Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber (Boydell, 2020) and (with Steve Poole) of Bristol from Below; Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (Boydell, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Rogers, Professor Nicholas (Royalty Account) Rogers
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9781837651511
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-151-1
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 163 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 520 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918