History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812

, by Williams, Gomer; Eltis, David

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ISBN: 9780773527461 | 077352746X
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Copyright: 12/1/2004

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List of Illustrations

Introduction, 2004

xiii

David Eltis

Preface

xxv

PART I. --- PRIVATEERING

A Peep Behind the Scenes --- The Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Merchant

(31)

The Story of Captain Fortunatus Wright and Selim, the Armenian Captive

(47)

Privateers of the Seven Years' War

(100)

Privateers of the American War of Independence

179

(124)

Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque Ships During the Wars of the French Revolution

303

(127)

Liverpool Privateers During the Second War with America

430

(35)

PART II. --- THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE

The Liverpool Slave Trade, how it Originated and Thrived

465

(31)

Captain John Newton

496

(33)

The Massacre at Old Calabar

529

(38)

The Abolition Movement

567

(15)

Horrors of the Middle Passage

582

(12)

Emoluments of the Traffic --- A Millionaire's Ventures

594

(15)

The Corporation and the Slave Trade

609

(17)

Captain Hugh Crow

626

(65)

APPENDIX TO PRIVATEERS

List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Spaniards and French, in the War of 1739-1748

659

(2)

The Enterprise Privateer, Cost of Outfit, List of Owners, Officers, etc.

661

(4)

List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Enemy during the Seven Years' War, 1756-1763

665

(2)

List of the principal Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, in the War with America, France, Spain and Holland, 1775-1783

667

(3)

Copy of the Letter of Marque against the French, granted in 1796 to Captain John Maciver, commander of the Swallow, private ship of war, of Liverpool

670

(4)

APPENDIX TO SLAVE TRADE

List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752

674

(1)

List of Guineamen belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752, with Owners' and Commanders' Names, and the number of Slaves carried by each

675

(3)

The number of Ships which cleared out from the port of Liverpool, to the coast of Africa, from the earliest date to the time of the trade being abolished in May, 1807

678

(1)

List of Houses that annually imported upwards of 1000 Slaves, the Number of Ships employed, and Slaves by them imported, from 1783 to 1793, showing the proportion they held to all the slave-vessels that annually sailed from the port of Liverpool during that period

678

(1)

List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1807

679

(1)

Comparative Statement of Ships cleared out from the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, to the coast of Africa, from 1795 to 1804

680

(1)

Paid for a Negro man at Bonny, in 1801

680

(1)

List of Guineamen belonging to the port of Liverpool which sailed for Africa, from the 5th of January, 1798, to the 5th of January, 1799, with Owners' and Commanders' Names and the complement of Slaves allowed to each

681

(4)

Summary of the aggregate number of Liverpool ships employed in the Guinea trade, together with the number and value of the Slaves imported to the West Indies from 1783 to 1793

685

(1)

Extract from ``A Log of the proceedings on board the Brigg Mampookata, on a voyage to Ambrize, on the coast of Angola,'' in the year 1787

686

(2)

Character of the Seamen in the Slave Trade

688

(1)

Food of the Slaves

689

(2)

Index to Names of Persons mentioned in this Work

691

(9)

Index to Subjects

700

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