Went to the devil : a Yankee whaler in the slave trade /
"Edward Davoll was a respected New Bedford whaling captain in an industry at its peak in the 1850s. But mid-career, disillusioned with whaling, desperately lonely at sea, and experiencing financial problems, he turned to the slave trade, with disastrous results. Why would a man of good reputati...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Amherst :
Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press,
[2019]
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvpbnp74 |
| Sumari: | "Edward Davoll was a respected New Bedford whaling captain in an industry at its peak in the 1850s. But mid-career, disillusioned with whaling, desperately lonely at sea, and experiencing financial problems, he turned to the slave trade, with disastrous results. Why would a man of good reputation, in a city known for its racial tolerance and Quaker-inspired abolitionism, risk engagement with this morally repugnant industry? In this riveting biography, Anthony J. Connors explores this question by detailing not only the troubled, adventurous life of this man but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Set in an era of social and political fragmentation and impending civil war, when changes in maritime law and the economics of whaling emboldened slaving agents to target captains and their vessels for the illicit trade, Davoll's story reveals the deadly combination of greed and racial antipathy that encouraged otherwise principled Americans to participate in the African slave trade"-- |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xv, 185 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781613766545 1613766548 9781625344045 162534404X 9781625344052 1625344058 |