History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letter of Marque: with an account of the Liverpool Slave Trade [Paperback]

Part I History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque; Chapter I A Peep Behind the Scenesthe Ancient Mariner and the Ancient Merchant; Chapter II The Story of Captain Fortunatus Wright and Selim the Armenian Captive; Chapter III Privateers of the Seven Years War; Chapter IV Privateers of the American War of Independence; Chapter V Liverpool Privateers and Letter of Marque Ships during the Wars of the French Revolution; Chapter VI Liverpool Privateers During the Second War with America; Part II The Liverpool Slave Trade; Chapter VII How It Originated and Thrived; Chapter VIII Captain John Newton; Chapter IX The Massacre at Old Calabar; Chapter X The Abolition Movement; Chapter XI Horrors of the Middle Passage; Chapter XII Emoluments of the TrafficA Millionaires Ventures; Chapter XIII The Corporation and the Slave Trade; Chapter XIV Captain Hugh Crow;First Published in 1967. Using a number of original sources of newspapers, rare documents, magazines and records this book offers the history of Liverpool privateering and the delicate subject of the Liverpool slave trading.US? Taylor & Francis Group