Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade
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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'...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1846310679
ISBN13:9781846310676
Release Date:May 2008
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Length:212 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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