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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Smith, Billy Gordon
Titre(s) : Ship of Death [Texte imprimé] : a Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World / Billy G. Smith
Publication : New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xviii, 306 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Comprend : The Hankey ; The British colonists ; West Africa ; Cross-cultural negotiations
; Death in Bolama ; Grumettas and the final days of the "Canabacs' chickens" ; Yellow
Jack comes to the Caribbean ; Calamity in the United States capital ; Journal of
the plague months ; Epilogue: The living and the dead ; The legacy of the Hankey
; Glossary of people and places of West Africa.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
" It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled
the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This
extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, from its altruistic
beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship's fateful impact upon people
from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. Billy G. Smith chased the story
of the Hankey from archive to archive across several continents, and he now brings
back to light a saga that continues to haunt the modern world. It began with a group
of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery
in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then
North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever.
The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic.
In the United States, tens of thousands died in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and
Charleston. The few survivors on the Hankey eventually limped back to London, hopes
dashed and numbers decimated. Smith links the voyage and its deadly cargo to some
of the most significant events of the era-the success of the Haitian slave revolution,
Napoleon's decision to sell the Louisiana Territory, a change in the geopolitical
situation of the new United States-and spins a riveting tale of unintended consequences
and the legacy of slavery that will not die"
Sujet(s) : Esclavage -- Abolition -- 18e siècle
Traite des esclaves -- 18e siècle
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300194524 (hardback). - ISBN 0300194528 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43600974z
Notice n° :
FRBNF43600974
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