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The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast Etc
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Author : Harry COLLINGWOOD (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast Etc written by Harry COLLINGWOOD (pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast
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Author : Harry Collingwood
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast written by Harry Collingwood and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast
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Author : Collingwood Harry
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-23
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast written by Collingwood Harry and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with categories.
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The Pirate Slaver
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Author : Harry Collingwood
language : en
Publisher: Tutis Digital Pub
Release Date : 2008-09
The Pirate Slaver written by Harry Collingwood and has been published by Tutis Digital Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Fiction categories.
"The quick jar and clash of blade upon blade; the occasional explosion of a pistol; the dull, crushing sound of unwarded blows; the sharp scream of agony as some poor wretch feels the stroke of merciless steel . . ." * The year is 1840, and Henry Dugdale is shipping out on H.M.S. "Barracouta," an 18-gun brig of the newest design -- in search of slavers. The senior midshipman has just learned their immediate destination, there off the coast of West Africa. The Congo, it seems, has become a hotbed of activity, with a strong group of desperate slavers operating somewhere along its banks. But the captain of the "Barracouta," too, has his share of daring -- for he plans an attack in the pitch dark of a windy midnight!
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast
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Author : Harry Collingwood
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-08-14
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast written by Harry Collingwood and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with categories.
The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast: Large Print By Harry Collingwood The Congo River. "Land ho! broad on the port bow!" The cry arose from the look-out on the forecastle of her Britannic Majesty's 18-gun brig Barracouta, on a certain morning near the middle of the month of November, 1840; the vessel then being situated in about latitude 6 degrees 5 minutes south and about 120 east longitude. She was heading to the eastward, close-hauled on the port tack, under every rag that her crew could spread to the light and almost imperceptible draught of warm, damp air that came creeping out from the northward. So light was the breeze that it scarcely wrinkled the glassy smoothness of the long undulations upon which the brig rocked and swayed heavily while her lofty trucks described wide arcs across the paling sky overhead, from which the stars were vanishing one after another before the advance of the pallid dawn. And at every lee roll her canvas flapped with a rattle as of a volley of musketry to the masts, sending down a smart shower from the dew-saturated cloths upon the deck, to fill again with the report of a nine-pounder and a great slatting of sheets and blocks as the ship recovered herself and rolled to windward. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast
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Author : Harry Collingwood (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
The Pirate Slaver A Story Of The West African Coast written by Harry Collingwood (pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with categories.
The Pirate Slaver Ebook Nc Digital Library
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Author : Harry collingwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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Real Pirates
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Author : Barry Clifford
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2007
Real Pirates written by Barry Clifford and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Profiles the ship Whidah, including who sailed it, where it sailed, and why it sailed, and what happened to it.
Britain S War Against The Slave Trade
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Author : Anthony Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2020-04-30
Britain S War Against The Slave Trade written by Anthony Sullivan and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with History categories.
The true story of the Royal Navy’s sixty-year campaign to stop slavery across the British Empire, decades before the American Civil War. Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings, and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain’s somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa’s west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain’s decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron, which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy’s ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. In Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known campaign. Whereas Britain is usually, and justifiably, condemned for its earlier involvement in the slave trade, the truth is that in time the Royal Navy undertook a major and expensive operation to end what was, and is, an evil business.
Slave Traders By Invitation
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Author : Finn Fuglestad
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-01
Slave Traders By Invitation written by Finn Fuglestad and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-01 with History categories.
The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, it was this coastline that witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relation-ship between Europeans and Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about? How was it all organised? And how did the locals react to the opportunities these new trading relations offered them? The Kingdom of Dahomey is usually cited as the Slave Coast's archetypical slave raiding and slave trading polity. An inland realm, it was a latecomer to the slave trade, and simply incorporated a pre-existing system by dint of military prowess, which ultimately was to prove radically counterproductive. Fuglestad's book seeks to explain the Dahomean 'anomaly' and its impact on the Slave Coast's societies and polities.