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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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Amherst :
Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press,
[2019]
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvpbnp74 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- A note on the Transatlantic slave trade
- A whaling career
- Captain
- The parting
- "Keep a high toe nail & a stiff upper lip"
- The wreck of the Iris
- Recovery
- "What's in the wind?"
- Evasion
- The case against Captain Davoll
- The sham whalers of New Bedford
- Slave traders and abolitionists
- The curious case of the Ship B
- Captain Edward S. Davoll (1822-1863)
- Consequences.