INDEX
Abington
(ship)
able seamen
abolition movement
on African wars as kidnapping
Cugoano and
D’Wolf trial and
in end of slave trade
Equiano in
iconographic vocabulary of
Newton joins
Riland influenced by.
Robinson attempts to counter
sailors’ experiences in
on sharks as terror of slave trade
shipbuilding politicized by
slave resistance emphasized by
slaves as first abolitionists
slave ships made real by
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Stanfield influenced by.
Trotter’s testimony and
workers in
Zong
trial in development of
Abyeda.
Achebe, Chinua
Adams, John.
Adinyés
Adlington
(ship).
Adventure
(ship)
Africa
African slave-ship sailors
commodities traded in
as graveyard for sailors
slave trade in
Stanfield on slave trade’s effect on
in triangular trade
see also
Bight of Benin; Bight of Biafra; Gold Coast; Senegambia; Sierra Leone; West-Central Africa; Windward Coast;
and peoples by name
Africa
(ship)
African
(ship)
African Trade, the Great Pillar and Support of the British Plantation Trade in America, The
(Postlethwayt)
Agaja, King
Akan
Albion
(ship)
alcohol
brandy
grog
sailors’ consumption of
Alfred
(ship)
Angola
captains’ stereotype of slaves from
Fraser on slaves from
Laurens on slaves from
Lunda Empire
as source of slaves
Ann
(ship)
Anne
(ship)
Antelope
(ship)
Antigua
Antonio, Manuel
Appleby, George
Arabella
(ship)
Ardra (Allada), king of
armorers (gunners)
Arnold, James
Aro
Arthur, Robert
articles of agreement
Asa-Asa, Louisn.
Asante
Asiento
Aspinall, Edward
Aspinall, William
Atkins, John
Aubrey, T.
Austin & Laurens
Bagshaw, William
Baker, Richard
Baker, Thomas
Balante
Bambara
Bance Island
Bannister, John.
Barbados
Bridgetown
as destination for slaves
Equiano in
Gronniosaw taken to
Barber, Miles
barks.
barricado
Bartholomew, Perato
Beard, James
Bee
(ship)
Behrendt, Stephen .. .
Bellamy, Joseph
Benezet, Anthony.
Benin
(ship)
Benson
(ship)
Bermuda sloop
Bess
(ship)
Betsey
(ship)
Bight of Benin
as deadly for whites
foods from
mortality of slaves from
slaves from interior markets purchased in
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
Cooke, 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