A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica - 9780253340771

A Slaving Voyage to Africa and JamaicaThe Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794\nAuthor(s): Bruce L. Mouser\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253340771, 978-0253340771\nSynopsis\n\""Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa. . . . [Mouser's] exhaustive background research and editing are exemplary.\"" George Brooks\n 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 [tel], the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and tr.