Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Denver Brunsman

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A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat―it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century.

In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813952271

ISBN13:9780813952277

Release Date:July 2024

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.28 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

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