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The Logbooks
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Description for The Logbooks
Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting Num Pages: 208 pages, , black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HDDH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut's slave trade and question how we could have forgotten this part of our past so completely. When writer Anne Farrow discovered the significance of the logbooks for the Africa and two other ... Read more
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut's slave trade and question how we could have forgotten this part of our past so completely. When writer Anne Farrow discovered the significance of the logbooks for the Africa and two other ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819573056
SKU
V9780819573056
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Ref
99-3
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