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Extraordinary collection of commentaries by ships' doctors and captains, as well as written testimonies for a parliamentary committee investigating the slave trade. Accounts relate horrifying events and conditions: the holding pens or "factories," living conditions aboard ships, mutinies and their suppression, and more. 54 period engravings and other illustrations accompany the grim record.Dow, George Francis is the author of 'Slave Ships and Slaving', published 1927 under ISBN 9780403001590 and ISBN 0403001595.
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