Author : Brian Jacques
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440621020
Adrift in the Mediterranean, Ben and his loyal dog Ned-cursed by an avenging angel to roam the earth forever-fall into the clutches of a slaver, and have no one to rely on but each other in their quest for freedom.
Author : Sean M. Kelley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1469627698
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage, detailing everything from the identities of the captain and crew to their wild encounters with inclement weather, slave traders, and near-mutiny. But most importantly, Kelley tracks the cohort of slaves aboard the Hare from their purchase in Africa to their sale in South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, Kelley provides rare insight into the communal lives of slaves and sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence on the formation of African American culture. In this immersive exploration, Kelley connects the story of enslaved people in the United States to their origins in Africa as never before. Told uniquely from the perspective of one particular voyage, this book brings a slave ship's journey to life, giving us one of the clearest views of the eighteenth-century slave trade.
Author : Brian Jacques
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0142412465
From the writer of the immensely succesful and imaginative Redwall series. Adrift in the Mediterranean, Ben and his loyal dog Ned -- cursed by an avenging angel to roam the earth foreve -- fall into the clutches of a slaver, and have no one to rely on but each other in their quest for freedom.
Author : Brian Jacques
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2006-10-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781428115699
Voyage of Slaves
Author : Brian Jacques
Publisher : Follettbound
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780329673390
Author : Brian Jacques
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1440623961
Fans of the New York Times bestselling Redwall series will be delighted with Brian Jacques' latest. The legend of the Flying Dutchman, the ghost-ship doomed to sail the seas forever, has been passed down throughout the centuries. But what of the boy, Neb, and his dog, Den, who were trapped aboard that ship? What was to become of them? Sent off on an eternal journey of their own, the boy and his dog roam the earth through out the centuries in search of those in need. Braving wind and waves and countless perils, they stumble across a 19th-century village whose very existence is at stake. Saving it will take the will and wile of all the people--and a very special boy and dog. "The swashbuckling language brims with color and melodrama; the villains are dastardly and stupid; and buried treasure, mysterious clues, and luscious culinary descriptions (generally involving sweets) keep the pages turning." (Booklist)
Author : Jehan Jones-Radgowski
Publisher :
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2019-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1543512895
The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape. Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, where escaped slaves were given shelter. The suspenseful escape of the determined crew is celebrated with beautiful artwork and insightful prose, detailing the true account of an unsung American hero.
Author : Christian M. McBurney
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594163821
Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade is the never-before-told story of the extraordinary 1778 voyage of the American ship Marlborough that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to attack the heart of the British slave trading empire in West Africa. Conceived and funded by prominent Rhode Island merchant John Brown, the 20-gun double-decked brig and its mission would have been forgotten were it not for the little-known primary source document, Journal of the Good Ship Marlborough, recognized by the author for its extraordinary importance to the history of slavery and the American Revolution.
Author : Saidiya Hartman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374531157
An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the present.--Elizabeth Schmidt, "The New York Times."
Author : Robert Harms
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 078672479X
The groundbreaking history of the Atlantic slave trade, winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and the J. Russell Major Prize. In The Diligent, acclaimed historian Robert Harms reveals the complex workings of the slave trade by drawing on the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand to recreate the macabre journey of a French slave ship. The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, then to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar plantations. He brings to life a world in which slavery was carried out without qualms: the gruesome details of daily life aboard a slave ship, French merchants wrangling for the right to traffic in slaves, African kings waging epic wars for control of slave trading posts, and representatives of European governments negotiating the complicated politics of the Guinea coast to ensure a steady supply of labor for their countries' colonies. By combining the detailed story of an expedition with an exploration of the significant personalities and events that were shaping Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean in the early eighteenth century, The Diligent provides an intimate understanding of a horrifying world.
