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Guinea Captains

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ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 8 Sep 2010 16:57

Apparently as well as high death rate amongst the slaves on the voyage the death rate amongst crew was as high as 54% but then again their value was not as much. Many of those who survived the voyage died ashore.

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 8 Sep 2010 15:14

Well the certainly don't sound very nice people...

"The independent traders were both British and colonial — the former from London, Bristol, and Liverpool, the latter from Boston, Newport, New York, Charleston, and other seaports — who brought their negroes direct from Africa or bought them in the West Indies for sale in the colonies. The voyage of a slaver was a dangerous and gruesome experience, and the "Guinea captains," as they were called, were often truculent, inhuman characters."

http://www.chroniclesofamerica.com/colonial_folkways/problem_of_labor.htm


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ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 8 Sep 2010 15:11

Thank you

Pam

Pam Report 8 Sep 2010 15:10

http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/library/publicinfo/slavetrade.xml

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Middlesex, Berkshire and Somerset

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 8 Sep 2010 14:57

Were these men slavers? Reading a book called 2,000 Manx Mariners and it refers to them.