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by Marcus Rediker


  as source of slaves

  Stanfield in

  Bight of Biafra

  belief in going home to Guinea after death in

  as deadly for whites

  foods from

  magnitude of slave trade in

  mortality of slaves from

  as source of slaves

  see also Bonny

  Bijagos Islanders

  Billinge, Henry

  Billinge, James

  Birch, Peter

  Bird, Japhet

  Black Bart (Bartholomew Roberts)

  Blackburn, Robin

  “black cook,”

  Black Joke (ship)

  Black Prince (ship)

  black trade

  Blake, William

  Blayds (ship)

  Blundell, Thomas

  “Boatswain, The” (slave)

  “Boatswain Bess” (slave)

  boatswains

  boat trade

  Bobangi

  bondage, hardware of

  Bonny

  burial ground for sailors at

  canoemen transport captive woman

  Crow trades at

  Equiano arrives at

  Fraser on slaves from

  Jenkins trades at

  Parr explosion

  sharks at

  slaves from interior markets purchased in

  as slave-trading center

  Bosman, Willem

  Bostock, Robert

  Boulton, Thomas .

  Bowen, James

  Bowen, Josiah

  Bowen, Richard

  Bowes, Christopher.

  Branagan, Thomas.

  branding

  brandy

  Bridgetown (Barbados)

  Bridson, John

  Bristol

  Clarkson’s research in

  Jenkins sails from.

  Liverpool overtakes in slave trade

  mortality rate for sailors from

  slave-ship captains from

  Society of Merchant Venturers .

  trend toward larger vessels in

  “Bristol voyage,”

  Britain’s Glory; or Ship-Building Unvail’d (Sutherland)

  Briton (ship)

  Brooke, Richardn.

  Brooks (ship)

  ambiguity of image of

  barbarism as key to understanding image of

  coffinlike shape of

  continues sailing

  in debates over slave trade

  diagram of

  French Revolution influenced by image of

  impact of image of

  London image of

  main ethnic groups aboard

  number of slaves carried by

  in parliamentary debate on slave trade

  Parrey’s report on

  Philadelphia and New York images of

  Plymouth image of

  reproduction of image of

  rigorous economy of

  sailors’ interviews compared with image of

  slave commits suicide on

  slave insurrection associated with

  why it was featured in abolitionist propaganda

  Brooks, Joseph, Jr.

  Brothers (ship)

  Brownlow (ship)

  Bruce Grove (ship)

  “building house,”

  bullying

  Bundy, John

  Burges, Richard

  burial at sea

  Butterworth, William

  as amazed by ships.

  becomes slave-ship sailor

  on bonding among slaves

  on captains

  discharged in Kingston

  on fights among slaves

  on guard duty

  on lack of sleep on shipboard

  on officers’ hard hearts

  on slave communication

  on slave insurrection

  on slave “Sarah,”

  on slaves’ arrival at ship.

  Buxton (ship)

  Byam (ship)

  Cabinda

  cannibalism

  cannon, cast-iron

  canoe houses

  Canterbury (ship)

  Cape Coast Castle

  Cape Mount Jack

  capitalism

  Brooks image and violence of

  captains’ role in

  deep-sea sailing ships in development of

  plantation system

  slave ships in Atlantic system of capital and labor

  slave trade in development of manufacturing

  see also merchants

  captains of slave ships

  as aloof and remote

  backgrounds of

  Boulton on

  as bullies

  cabin of

  cat-o’-nine-tails reserved for

  characteristics of

  Clarkson and

  command isolation of

  as craftsmen

  crew recruited by

  Crow

  dead slave bodies abused by

  D’Wolf

  experience offered by

  “favorites” of

  as foremen

  Fox

  Fraser

  fraudulent trading practices of

  functions of

  as investors or shipowners.

  Jackson

  letters of instruction to

  mortality of

  Newton

  Norris

  officers recruited by

  power of

  relations with one another

  captains of slave ships (continued)

  as representatives of merchants

  savage spirit of

  selling items to crew.

  sharks used to terrorize slaves by

  and slaves

  Snelgrave

  Stanfield on

  as traders

  wages of

  watches taken by

  Watkins

  wealth acquired by.

  Captain Tomba

  Carey, Mathew

  carpenters

  Carretta, Vincent.

  Carter, Joseph

  cat-o’-nine-tails

  Chadwick, Richard

  chains

  Chamba (Dunco) .

  Chapman, Fredrik Henrik ap

  Charles, James

  Charleston (South Carolina) .

  Charleston (ship)n.

  Charles-Town (ship)

  Chesapeake

  Christian, David

  Christopher, Emma

  City of London (ship)

  Clannen, Henry.

  Clare (ship)

  Clarkson, Thomas

  on Abyeda.

  on African belief in transmigration of souls

  aids sailors in bringing prosecutions

  attempt on life of

  on Brooks image .

  Brooks image distributed to Parliament by

  Brooks image given to emperor of Russia by.

  and destitute sailors.

  Essay on the Comparative Efficiency of Regulation of Abolition as applied to the Slave Trade, An

  Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade, An

  on Haitian Revolution

  History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

  on mortality rate for sailors

  in Paris

  research on slave trade

  retires from public life

  on slave resistance

  on slave women singing

  and Stanfield.

  Substance of the Evidence of Sundry Persons on the Slave-Trade

  on variety of slaving vessels .

  Claxton, Ecroyde

  Clemens, James

  Cocket, Thomas

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  Collingwood, Luke

  Comte du Nord (ship)

  confidence slaves

  Connolly, James

  Connor, John

  Coo
ke, Captain

  cooks

  Cooney, William

  Cooper, Thomas

  coopers

  copper-sheathed hullsn.

  Cornwall (ship)

  Coromantees

  Cowan, Alexander

  Cranston, John. n.

  Cremer, Jack.

  Crescent (ship)

  crews of slave ships

  abolition movement and

  Africans among

  blacklisting of seamen

  as brother tars

  burial at sea of

  captains entertain themselves by tormenting

  Clarkson interviews

  complaints that slaves are better treated

  composition of

  conditions on Brooks

  contradictory class position of

  culture of

  desertion by

  at end of voyage

  food for

  of Fox’s Peggy

  as jolly jack-tars

  Liverpool insurrection of

  merchants concerned about resistance by

  mortality of.

  mutiny by

  nationality and ethnicity of

  of Newton’s Duke of Argyle

  Newton’s opinion of

  Owen

  as prison guards

  private trade by

  reasons for joining slave ships

  recruitment of

  relationship with captain

  Robinson

  sexual exploitation of female slaves

  sickness among

  social background of

  Stanfield on

  suicide by

  violence against slaves by

  wages of ..

  as “white” men

  as “white slaves,”

  as workers

  work of

  see also discipline

  crime, slavery as punishment for

  crimps.

  Cropper, Robert

  Crow, Hugh

  cooperation with other captains

  on desecrating dead slave bodies

  on Ibibio

  on Igbo sharing

  King Holiday of Bonny and

  on reparations

  severity and cruelty distinguished by

  on sharks

  on slave-ship sailors

  on slaves jumping overboard

  slaves rewarded for good behavior by

  as trader

  Cruikshank, Isaac

  Cugoano, Ottobah

  Currie, James.

  Curtin, Philip

  “dab-a-dab,”

  Dagge, John

  Dahomey

  Dalziel, Alexander

  “dancing,”

  dashee (comey)

  Davis, Howell

  dead list.

  Dean, John

  death, see mortality

  Deborah (ship)

  debt

  in recruitment of crews

  selling into slavery for

  Delight (ship)

  Derby (ship)

  desertion

  Dickinson, Dr.

  “Dicky Sam,”

  discipline

  as brutal

  dialectic of resistance and

  merchants’ concern about

  Newton’s strict

  see also punishment

  disease, see sickness

  “Dizia, an African Lady” (Boulton)

  doctors (surgeons)

  cat-o’-nine-tails used by

  conflict with captain

  eat with captain

  functions of

  slaves examined by

  in slave-ship division of labor

  wages of

  Dolben, Sir William

  Dolben Act (Slave Carrying Bill) of

  Donnan, Elizabeth.

  “door of no return,”

  DuBois, W. E. B..

  Duke, Antera.

  Duke of Argyle (ship)

  Dunbar, Charles

  Duncan, Captain

  Duncan, John.

  Dundas, Sir Henry

  Dunfry, Peter

  Dunn, John

  D’Wolf, James .n..

  D’Wolf family.

  dysentery

  Dyula merchants

  Eagle (ship).

  Earl of Halifax (ship)

  Edwards, Captain

  Edwards, Richard

  Efik

  Ekpe (Leopard) Society

  Elford, Williamn.

  Eliza (ship)

  Elizabeth (ship)

  Ellery, William

  Ellis, Thomas

  Ellison, Henry

  on captain as trader

  on education and advancement for sailors

  on sailors entering slave trade

  on separation of slaves

  on slave insurrections

  on superfluous sailors in West Indies

  Eltis, David

  Emilia (ship)

  Endeavor (ship)

  English language

  Enterprize (ship)

  Equiano, Olaudah

  African home of

  autobiography of

  in Barbados

  controversy over origins of.

  father as slaveholder

  as Gustavus Vassa

  kidnapping of

  in Middle Passage

  new connections with his countrymen

  passage to England of

  personal names in account of

  purchases his freedom

  on the slave ship

  on white people

  Essay on Colonization, An (Wadstrom)

  Essay on the Comparative Efficiency of Regulation of Abolition as applied to the Slave Trade, An (Clarkson)

  Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade, An (Clarkson)

  Essay on the Study and Composition of Biography, An (Stanfield).

  Essex (ship)

  ethnogenesis

  Europe Supported by Africa & America (Blake)

  Evans, Jenkin

  dispels rumor about long voyage

  as hypocrite

  “Sarah” as “favorite” of

  slave plot on ship of

  stations guard in male captives’ quarters

  Ewe

  exemplary punishment

  Expedition (ship)

  Fage, J.D..

  Falconbridge, Alexander

  on cat-o’-nine-tails

  Clarkson and

  on Fraser

  on Gold Coast slaves

  on necessary tubs

  on separation of slaves

  on sexual relations on slave ships

  on sharks in Bonny

  on slave ships and slaughterhouses

  on violence among slaves

  Falconer, William.

  Fante

  on Brooks

  chaining of

  Chamba as enemies of

  knowledge of Europeans and sailing

  in slave trade

  “favorites,”

  Fellowes, Joseph

  Fentiman, Edward

  Ferrers Galley (ship)

  Ferret (ship)

  fever

  fictive kinship

  fire

  firearms, see guns (firearms)

  Fisher, John

  Fisher, Thomas

  Fitzpatrick, Sir Jeremiah

  flogging (whipping)

  adding salt to the wound

  cat-o’-nine-tails

  Equiano on

  for insurrection

  Noble on his use of

  for refusal to eat

  for songs of resistance

  Stanfield on

  unmerciful

  Florida (ship)

  Fly (ship)

  Fon

  food

  for captain

  for crew

  Igbo

  short allowance

  for slaves

  women slaves in preparation of

  Foreign
Slave Trade Bill of

  Forrester, John

  Fort James

  Fort Komenda

  fort trade

  Fountain, John.

  Fousha, Henry

  Fox, Anthony

  Fox, Charles James

  Fox, John

  Fraser, James.

  Free Love (ship)

  Freeman, Captain

  free traders

  French Revolution

  Fryer, James

  Fulbe

  Fuse, Arthur

  Futa Jallon

  Gamble, Samuel

  Georgia

  ghost ships

  Glover, George

  Gola

  Gold Coast

  belief in going home to Guinea after death in

  Cape Coast Castle

  foods from

  Fraser on slaves from

  health of slaves from

  insurrections among slaves from

  Lauren on slaves from

  as relatively healthy for whites

  slave insurrection off

  slaves from interior markets purchased in

  as source of slaves

  Stanfield on hiring Fante workers on

  Goldsmith, Oliver

  Gomez, Michael.

  Goodboy, John

  Gordon, Thomas

  Goree Island

  Grafton, Joseph and Joshua

  Green, Peter

  Greyhound (ship)

  grog

  Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw

  grumettoes

  Guerard, John.

  Guinea casks

  Guinea Voyage: A Poem in Three Books, The (Stanfield). .

  Guinea worm

  gunners (armorers)

  gun room

  guns (firearms)

  African ruling groups possess

  Aro use of

  in Benin

  for guarding captives

  slaves traded for

  slaves using in insurrections

  for terrorizing captives

  Haitian Revolution

  Hall, John Ashley

  Hamilton, John

  Harding, Richard

  Hardingham, John

  hardware of bondage

  Hardwicke, Eustace

  Harms, Robert

  Harris, Charles

  Harrison, David

  Hawk (ship)

  Hawkins, Josephn.

  health care

  as lacking for slaves

  sailors complain about

  see also doctors (surgeons)

  Henderson, David

  Hesketh (ship)

  Hewlett, Captain

  Hilgrove, Nicholas

  Hill, George

  Hind (ship)

  History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (Clarkson)

  Hobhouse, Isaac

  Hogg, James

  Holiday, King of Bonny

  Holmes, Captain

  House of Slaves (Goree Island)

  Hudibras (ship) .

  Humbe

  Humble, Michael

  Hurry, William

  Hutchinson, William

  Ibau

  Ibibio

  Igala

  Igbo

  cannibalism feared by

  decentralized social organization of

  egalitarian practices on slave ships

  Olaudah Equiano

  female slave from

  Ibibio as enemies of

  language as widely understood

  Laurens on

  as product of slave trade

  suicide by.

  Ijo

  Industrious Bee (ship)

 

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