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Sweet Water And Bitter. Sian Rees
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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Personalised
- No
- Series
- Historical
- Type
- Textbook
- Subject Area
- The Abolition Act
- Publication Name
- Sweet Water and Bitter: the Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Features
- Illustrated.
- Level
- Advanced
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject
- The Slave Trade.
- ISBN
- 9781584659808
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN-10
1584659807
ISBN-13
9781584659808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99646376
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sweet Water and Bitter : the Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Slavery, Military / Naval, Africa / General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-045814
Reviews
"The good news is that trafficking in persons today is probably less profitable than slavery was in the 19th century or drugs are in the 21st. . . . We can reasonably hope to see modern-day slavery dramatically diminished in our lifetime, but we need the sobriety that Sweet Water and Bitter provides."ÑBooks and Culture, "What more can you ask of written history? Oxford scholar Sian Rees' Sweet Water and Bitter is a well-researched narrative of an epic saga little known hereÑBritain's attempt to abolish all transatlantic slave trade in the 1800sÑinterwoven with smashing high-seas adventure worthy of Patrick O'Brian."ÑNewcity Lit, "What more can you ask of written history? Oxford scholar Sian Rees' Sweet Water and Bitter is a well-researched narrative of an epic saga little known here-Britain's attempt to abolish all transatlantic slave trade in the 1800s-interwoven with smashing high-seas adventure worthy of Patrick O'Brian."-Newcity Lit, "The good news is that trafficking in persons today is probably less profitable than slavery was in the 19th century or drugs are in the 21st. . . . We can reasonably hope to see modern-day slavery dramatically diminished in our lifetime, but we need the sobriety that Sweet Water and Bitter provides."--Books and Culture, "The good news is that trafficking in persons today is probably less profitable than slavery was in the 19th century or drugs are in the 21st. . . . We can reasonably hope to see modern-day slavery dramatically diminished in our lifetime, but we need the sobriety that Sweet Water and Bitter provides."-Books and Culture, "A study of the Royal Navy Preventive Squadron, a small fleet of ships that captured slave ships along the African coast and emancipated their captives in the era after Britain abolished slavery."ÑChronicle of Higher Education, "Rees presents a well-researched account of Britain's attempt to stem the Atlantic slave trade by creating the Preventive Squadron to enforce the 1807 Abolition Act. . . . Her use of case histories and personal narratives make this an especially engrossing read. Readers not well acquainted with African geography and nautical nomenclature may find the myriad details overwhelming, but Rees does an overall solid job of crafting a readable but dense narrative for serious readers. . . . Rees presents a little-known but historically significant chapter in nautical and slavery history, an important addition to 19th-century studies. Recommended to students and informed lay readers in British history and African geography." --Library Journal, "A study of the Royal Navy Preventive Squadron, a small fleet of ships that captured slave ships along the African coast and emancipated their captives in the era after Britain abolished slavery."-Chronicle of Higher Education, "What more can you ask of written history? Oxford scholar Sian Rees' Sweet Water and Bitter is a well-researched narrative of an epic saga little known here--Britain's attempt to abolish all transatlantic slave trade in the 1800s--interwoven with smashing high-seas adventure worthy of Patrick O'Brian."--Newcity Lit, "Rees presents a well-researched account of Britain's attempt to stem the Atlantic slave trade by creating the Preventive Squadron to enforce the 1807 Abolition Act. . . . Her use of case histories and personal narratives make this an especially engrossing read. Readers not well acquainted with African geography and nautical nomenclature may find the myriad details overwhelming, but Rees does an overall solid job of crafting a readable but dense narrative for serious readers. . . . Rees presents a little-known but historically significant chapter in nautical and slavery history, an important addition to 19th-century studies. Recommended to students and informed lay readers in British history and African geography." -Library Journal, "A study of the Royal Navy Preventive Squadron, a small fleet of ships that captured slave ships along the African coast and emancipated their captives in the era after Britain abolished slavery."--Chronicle of Higher Education
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
326.80941
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Black Beauty Unlawful Force False Papers and Mongrel Vessels Bad Blood The Fever, the Deys and the Ashanti Two Captains Two Lieutenants A Costly Grave Cuban Customs, Brazilian Buccaneers Black Jokes and High Jinks TheFirst Great Blows Willing Promoters and Partial Remedies Blockade Commerce, Christianity and Civilization Palaver and Presents Habits Not Ornamental to the Navy Persevering Offenders To an End, Immediately and Forever Notes Select Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In 1807, at the height of the Napoleonic war, ships of nearly allthe European nations crowded the malarial wharves of West Africa wheremerchants traded at the great slaveholding pens and packed their humanproperty into ships' holds, bound for the sugar mills of Cuba andHaiti, and the tobacco plantations of Virginia. In that same year Great Britain passed the Abolition Act, and thelast English slave ship left the African coast with her cargo, shortlyto be replaced by the ships and men of the Royal Navy'sPreventive Squadron. For the next fifty years this small fleetpatrolled 3,000 miles of treacherous coastline in a determined,unilateral, and only quasi-legal effort to interdict vessels with theirhuman cargoes. The squadron lost more than 17,000 men to disease, conflict, and variedmisfortunes, but they liberated more than 150,000 African slaves, andslowly - through negotiation, intimidation, and military anddiplomatic triumphs and setbacks - they helped put an end to therich, shameful, "peculiar institution" of European andAmerican trade in West African slaves. Through firsthand accounts ofnaval adventures, ship-to-ship actions, bold raids into the interior,and daily life at sea, Sian Rees brilliantly colors this huge canvas ina series of vivid small portraits of the men and officers of thePreventive Squadron. Sweet Water and Bitter is a movingchronicle of suffering, exploitation, and one nation'sdetermination to suppress slavery., The little-known story of the Royal Navy squadron that patrolled the African coast for fifty years, capturing vessels and emancipating slaves, In 1807, at the height of the Napoleonic war, ships of nearly all the European nations crowded the malarial wharves of West Africa where merchants traded at the great slaveholding pens and packed their human property into ships' holds bound for the sugar mills of Cuba and Haiti, and the tobacco plantations of Virginia. In that same year Great Britain passed the Abolition Act, and the last English slave ship left the African coast with her cargo, shortly to be replaced by the ships and men of the Royal Navy's Preventive Squadron. For the next fifty years this small fleet patrolled 3,000 miles of treacherous coastline in a determined, unilateral, and only quasi-legal effort to interdict vessels with their human cargoes. The squadron lost more than 17,000 men to disease, conflict, and varied misfortunes, but they liberated more than 150,000 African slaves, and slowly--through negotiation, intimidation, and military and diplomatic triumphs and setbacks--they helped put an end to the rich, shameful, "peculiar institution" of European and American trade in West African slaves. Through firsthand accounts of naval adventures, ship-to-ship actions, bold raids into the interior, and daily life at sea, Si'n Rees brilliantly colors this huge canvas in a series of vivid portraits of the men and officers of the Preventive Squadron. Sweet Water and Bitter is a moving chronicle of suffering, exploitation, and one nation's determination to suppress slavery., In 1807, at the height of the Napoleonic war, ships of nearly all the European nations crowded the malarial wharves of West Africa where merchants traded at the great slaveholding pens and packed their human property into ships' holds bound for the sugar mills of Cuba and Haiti, and the tobacco plantations of Virginia. In that same year Great Britain passed the Abolition Act, and the last English slave ship left the African coast with her cargo, shortly to be replaced by the ships and men of the Royal Navy's Preventive Squadron. For the next fifty years this small fleet patrolled 3,000 miles of treacherous coastline in a determined, unilateral, and only quasi-legal effort to interdict vessels with their human cargoes. The squadron lost more than 17,000 men to disease, conflict, and varied misfortunes, but they liberated more than 150,000 African slaves, and slowly--through negotiation, intimidation, and military and diplomatic triumphs and setbacks--they helped put an end to the rich, shameful, "peculiar institution" of European and American trade in West African slaves. Through firsthand accounts of naval adventures, ship-to-ship actions, bold raids into the interior, and daily life at sea, Si n Rees brilliantly colors this huge canvas in a series of vivid portraits of the men and officers of the Preventive Squadron. Sweet Water and Bitter is a moving chronicle of suffering, exploitation, and one nation's determination to suppress slavery.
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