Mouser,Bruce L. (Author) and Mouser,Bruce L. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Based on Samuel Gamble’s ship’s log entitled ’A journal of an intended voyage, by God’s permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown" by me Samuel Gamble Commander.Captain Samuel Gamble's log contains the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive. Bruce Mouser's faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the 18th century. Gamble was captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793—1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Mouser's extensive annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble's observations on commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast; Based on Samuel Gamble’s ship’s log entitled ’A journal of an intended voyage, by God’s permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown" by me Samuel Gamble Commander.
Burlington, Ont.: TannerRitchie Pub. in collaboration with the Library and Information Services of the University of St. Andrews
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Other Titles: America and West Indies, 1699. Originally published in print: London : Printed for H.M.S.O., by Mackie and Co., 1908., 1 online resource., This book discusses the original state paper of the British colonies; Editors: [v. 1-10] W.N. Sainsbury (with J.W. Fortescue, [v. 10])-- [v. 11-16] J.W. Fortescue.-- [v. 17-] Cecil Headlam (with A.P. Newton, [v. 38-])./ Eastern series continued in the calendars published by the India office
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
294 p, From New World to Pan-Atlantic: opening the history of America -- Francisco de Miranda, Toussaint Louverture, and the Pan-Atlantic sphere of liberation -- Pan-Atlantic exports and imports: translation, freedom, and the circulation of cultural capital -- Positioning South America from HMS Beagle: the navigator, the discoverer, and the ocean of free trade -- Pan-Atlantic migrations: capital, culture, revolution.; Time: 1700 - 1899
