The Slave Ship
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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)