Nigel Tattersfield THE FORGOTTEN TRADE First Edition Double Signed
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Nigel Tattersfield THE FORGOTTEN TRADE First Edition Double Signed
First edition first print hardback of THE FORGOTTEN TRADE: Comprising the Log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade From the Minor Ports of England 1698-1725 by Nigel Tattersfield. With a foreword by John Fowles. Published by Jonathan Cape in 1991. Signed by Tattersfield and Fowles on the title page.The book is in very good condition (blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with slight creasing to spine edges and slight tanning to the pages. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket which is protected in a removable protective sleeve and has light creasing to the edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
The chance discovery of the log of a slave ship on a stall in London's Farrington Road prompted Nigel Tattersfield to make this unique investigation into a little-known quarter of England's provincial maritime history, one that Englishmen are more proud of abolished then promoted. Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log of the Daniel and Henry provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in the year 1700, when the 'Daniel and Henry' set sail from Dartmouth, bound for the Guinea coast and Jamaica.
Two years earlier, the Guinea trade had been prised loose by an Act of Parliament from the monopoly of the Royal African Company, and respectable burghers in a dozen small provincial ports seized what they saw as an opportunity for quick rewards from human souls. Few of these merchants knew anything of trading in Africa, nor of the unscrupulous tribal chiefs who readily offered men, women and children in hard bargaining for beads, alcohol, weapons and gunpowder. Months passed in coastal hopping while day after day several hundred natives were gradually stacked in chains on platforms in sweltering heat below decks. Ships' crews fared scarcely better on the hazardous long voyage to deliver whatever cargo remained alive into the hands of rich plantation owners in the West Indies and North America in exchange for sugar, cotton, rice or tobacco.
Were in fact fortunes made before the vile trade was ended at the beginning of the nineteenth century? Tattersfield went in search of long-forgotten documents to chart how small provincial ports of Deal, Lyme Regis, Exeter, Falmouth, Whitehaven, among others, fared both economically and morally in the frantic early years of slaving when so much was won and lost.
460 pages. The endpapers are illustrated with a map. With several black & white illustrations.
ISBN: 0224029150
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