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The memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow : the life and times of a slave trade captain /[introduction by John Pinfold]. Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow (1765-1829), originally published in 1830 after his death. Crow was involved in the slave trade for seventeen years, making thirteen transatlantic voyages on slave-trading vessels, the last seven of these as master. Crow's Memoirs were written during his retirement but unlike other slave-trade captains he continued to justify his position and defend the trade after abolition. Crow remained convinced that the slave trade was a legitimate form of commerce and even that enslaved people were treated better and had a better life on the plantations than in Africa, both arguments being used by other supporters of the trade at the time. The Memoirs also provide an account of the conditions and practicalities of life at sea on board a slave-trading ship. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CROW
Journey back to freedom : the Olaudah Equiano story /Catherine Johnson ; with illustrations by Katie Hickey. "Aged only eleven, Olaudah Equiano was cruelly snatched from his home in Africa and sold into slavery. He spent much of the next ten years serving various masters at sea, travelling to the far corners of the globe. He witnessed horrendous cruelty and occasional kindness, while experiencing daring adventures and extreme peril. Throughout it all, he never gave up hope that one day he would be free again."-- 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362092
A short description of the Isle of Thanet ... Hunter, Robert Edward 1799 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:914.223
The voyages, distresses and adventures of Capt Winterfield Winterfield, Captain 1799 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.071.22
A Narrative of the loss of His Majesty's ship the Proserpine, James Wallace, Esq, Captain Wright, John 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:656.61.085.3Proserpine
Tafelen ... Douwes, Bernardus Joannes 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527
A compendious system of astronomy, in a course of familiar lectures ... Bryan, Margaret 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:52
The effect of the nitrous vapour in preventing and destroying contagion ... Smyth, James Carmichael 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:613.68
Charts and plates to La Perouse's voyage Galaup, Jean Francois 1798 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(100)"1785/1788"
A third dissertation on fever : part 2... Fordyce, George 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:616.9(043.3)
Manuel des marins : ou dictionnaire des termes de marine Bourde, Citoyen 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12(038)
New sailing directions for the coast of Africa ... and the African islands Dalzel, Archibald 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527.83(261)
The first part of the North American pilot Jefferys, Thomas 1799 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(261)"17"
Astronomical observations made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, from the year MDCCLXV to the year MDCCLXXIV Maskelyne, Nevil, 1776-1811. • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 52.092:094
Poseidon's curse : British Naval impressment and Atlantic origins of the American Revolution /Christopher P. Magra. "Poseidon's Curse' interprets the American Revolution from the vantage point of the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher P. Magra traces how British naval impressment played a leading role in the rise of Great Britain's seaborne empire, yet ultimately contributed significantly to its decline. Long reliant on appropriating free laborers to man the warships that defended British colonies and maritime commerce, the British severely jeopardized mariners' earning potential and occupational mobility, which led to deep resentment toward the British Empire. Magra explains how anger about impressment translated into revolutionary ideology, with impressment eventually occupying a major role in the Declaration of Independence as one of the foremost grievances Americans had with the British government."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.03
The occupation of Havana : war, trade, and slavery in the Atlantic world /Elena A. Schneider. "In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America. The Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba's return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions."--Provided by publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(729.1)
Unhomely empire : whiteness and belonging, from the Scottish Enlightenment to liberal imperialism /Onni Gust. "Examining the discourse of 'home' and 'exile' in Enlightenment thought, this book explores its role in British imperial expansion during the 'long' 18th century. European imperial expansion radically increased population mobility through new trade routes, war, disease and labour, and by the 18th century millions of people were on the move. This book argues that this mass movement led to intellectual ideas and questions about what it meant to belong, and played a major role in the construction of racial difference in empire. Unhomely Empire maps the consolidation of an elite discourse of 'home' and 'exile' through three inter-related case studies and debates; slavery and abolition in the Caribbean, Scottish highland emigration to North America, and raising white girls in colonial India. Playing out over poetry, political pamphlets, travel writing, philosophy, letters and diaries, these debates offer a unique insight into the movement of ideas across a British-imperial literary network. Using this rich cultural material, Gust argues that these intellectual ideas in the long 18th century played a key role in determining who could belong to nation, civilization and humanity"--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 909/.0971206
Foreign Jack Tars : the British Navy and transnational seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars /Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge). "The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793-1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its operations. Foreign Jack Tars presents the first in-depth study of their employment in the Navy during this crucial period. Based on sources from across Britain, Europe, and the USA, and blending quantitative, social, cultural, economic, and legal history, it challenges the very notions of 'Britishness' and 'foreignness'. The need for manpower during wartime meant that naval recruitment regularly bypassed cultural prejudice, and even legal status. Temporarily outstripped by practical considerations, these categories thus revealed their artificiality. The Navy was not simply an employer in the British maritime market, but a nodal point of global mobility. Exposing the inescapable transnational dimensions of a quintessentially national institution, the book highlights the instability of national boundaries, and the compromises and contradictions underlying the power of modern states"-- 2023. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 359.00941
Tables trigonomâetriques dâecimales ou, Table des logarithmes des sinus, sâecantes et tangentes, suivant la division du quart de cercle en 100 degrâes, du degrâe en 100 minutes, et de la minute en 100 secondes : prâecâedâees de la table des logarithmes des nombres depuis dix mille jusqu'áa cent mille, et de plusieurs tables subsidiaires /calculâees par Ch. Borda ; revues, augmentâees et publiâees par J.B.J. Delambre, membre de l'Institut national de France et du Bureau des Longitudes. Borda, Jean-Charles de, 1801 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 514.116(083.5):094
A new and complete plan of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark containing all the improvements in, and round the metropolis 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:912.43(421.2)
The navigator's companion : or, mariner's compendious pocket-book, containing every thing necessary in the art of navigation Masheder, W 1754 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:527
The poetical works of the Rev Dr E Young : with the life of the author Young, Edward 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:820-1
Description and use of the patent military and naval telescope for measuring distances and the extension of objects at sight by means of a new micrometrical adjustment Rand, Cater 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:520.259
Remarks on Mr John Bell's Anatomy of the heart and arteries : [bound with] Remarks on the first volume of Mr Benjamin Bell's System of Surgery Dawplucker, Jonathan 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:611:616