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035 $a(OCoLC)on1048950214
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035 $a(OCoLC)1048950214
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050 4 $aHT1161$b.L48 2018
082 04 $a382/.440941$223
245 00 $aLetters from the voyages of the slave ship Pearl /$cedited by Audra A. Diptee and David V. Trotman ; with a foreword by Paul E. Lovejoy.
264 1 $aKingston, Jamaica :$bIan Randle Publishers,$c2018.
300 $axxxiii, 102 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical footnotes.
520 $a"The barbarity of the enforced migration of Africans to the Caribbean and the realities of the transatlantic slave trade are fully revealed in Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship PEARL. The nonchalant accounts of the awful details of suffering and death are brought into sharp relief by the editors who reconstruct four voyages of the PEARL between 1785 and 1793. The ship was owned by Bristol businessman James Rogers, and the letters in this collection are but a small sample of the 15 boxes of correspondence comprising the Rogers papers held at The National Archives at Kew in the United Kingdom. Caribbean scholars who can scarcely access the original records are provided with a closer understanding of the complexities of slave trading. Written from several perspectives - the ship's doctor, the captains, slave traders on the African coast and Caribbean merchants - this assemblage offers a unique glimpse into the transatlantic slave trade. The letters, however, do not cover the perspective of the enslaved - muted and reduced to cargo, mentioned and recorded by number only. The book is divided into four parts for each of the selected voyages and each part is introduced with a short synopsis, each letter elucidated with explanatory notes. The work is enhanced by the inclusion of maps, tables and figures. Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship PEARL contextualises the continuing conversation of a painful past and is both enlightening and informative for the scholar, activist, and advocate alike."--Page 4 of cover.
610 20 $aPearl (Slave ship)
650 0 $aSlave traders$zEngland$zBristol$y18th century$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zWest Indies$xHistory$y18th century$vCorrespondence.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zWest Indies$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zEngland$zBristol$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y18th century.
650 7 $aBritish colonies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01910374
650 7 $aSlave trade.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01120405
650 7 $aSlave traders.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01120410
651 7 $aAfrica, West.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01239521
651 7 $aEngland$zBristol.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01209154
651 7 $aWest Indies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01243265
648 7 $a1700-1799$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aRecords and correspondence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423917
700 1 $aDiptee, Audra,$eeditor.
700 1 $aTrotman, David Vincent,$d1946-$eeditor.
700 1 $aLovejoy, Paul E.,$ewriter of foreword.
852 00 $bafst$hHT1161$i.L48 2018g