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| Other authors / contributors: | Schwarz, Suzanne, editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781846314070
1846314070
9781781388419
1781388415
1846310679
9781846310676
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | As few accounts written by slave ship captains are known to have survived, the personal papers of James Irving are of tremendous interest and academic significance. 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
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| Other form: | Print version: Slave captain. Rev. 2nd ed. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008 9781846310676
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