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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
189 p., Londoner is a city in the north of the Paraná, founded in the decade of 30 and is characterized for an extraordinary growth and by a history that it gives as a result of the project of colonization of the Company of North Lands of the Paraná, of English origin, where the name of Londoner.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
368 p, Tracing the islands’ path from slavery to revolution and independence, A Traveller’s History of the Caribbean looks at the history of nations as different as Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, explaining their diversity and their common experiences. It reveals a region in which a tumultuous past has created a culturally vibrant and intriguing present.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
122 p, Illustrated with a map of the island depicting places involved in sugar making, including the plants, trees, houses, rooms, and other places involved in the sugar making process. Reprinted in 1673.
