UID:
almahu_9949596947702882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 212 p.) :
,
maps.
Edition:
Rev. 2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781846314070 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Liverpool English texts and studies ; no. 50
Content:
Irving built a successful career in the slave trade of eighteenth-century Liverpool, first as a ship's surgeon and then as a captain. Remarkably he was himself enslaved when his ship was wrecked off the coast of Morocco and he was captured by people described as wild Arabs and savages. This edition of forty letters and his journal reveals the reaction of the slaver to the experience of slavery, as well as throwing light on the complex and, to modern eyes, repugnant features of the transatlantic slave trade.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781846310676
Language:
English
URL:
Liverpool scholarship online
