SLAVE SHIPS AND SLAVING.
Edition: First printing.
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1927. Hardcover first edition - A historical narrative of the slave trade as it was conducted between the early 1500s and 1859, a trade which continued even after it was prohibited by law. Among the topics covered are The Guinea Coast; Sir John Hawkins, Slave Trader; the Voyage of the Ship Hannibal of London, 1693; The Slaving Voyage of the Albio-Frigate of London; The Liverpool and Bristol Slavers; Mutinies aboard Slave Ships in the early days; Captain Crow, the Last Slaver out of Liverpool; Slaving Voyages by Rhode Island Vessels and more. Publication Number 15 of the Marine Research Society. 50 black and white illustrations and maps, index. xxxv, 349 pp plus a 1 pp. list of their publications.
Condition: Very near fine in black cloth with gilt titling to the spine - a large and heavy book, one upper corner slightly bumped.