Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Denver Brunsman

A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat―it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century.

In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813952271
• ISBN13: 9780813952277
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher