Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber

by Nicholas Rogers

How the death of a fifteen-year-old girl aboard the slave ship Recovery shook the British establishment.

On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain and Ireland and was even reported in America. Soon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783274824
• ISBN13: 9781783274826
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"