Slave Ships and Slaving

By George Francis Dow

Book Overview

Extraordinary collection of commentaries by ships' doctors and captains, as well as written testimonies for a parliamentary committee investigating the slave trade. Accounts relate horrifying events and conditions: the holding pens or "factories," living conditions aboard ships, mutinies and their suppression, and more. 54 period engravings and other illustrations accompany the grim record.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486226360
• ISBN13: 9780486226361
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.