The Forgotten Trade; comprising the log of the 'Daniel & Henry' of 1700 and accounts of the slave trade from the minor ports of England, 1698-1725

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Reprinted 1998. In two parts. 1] 'Logbook of the 'Daniel & Henry' of Exeter, 1700' being an account of the slave trade based on information from the log of a 'minor port' vessel, extracts of which are reproduced' [pp3-91]; 2] 'Merchants, mariners and ports in the provincial English slave trade in the early eighteenth century' [pp193-358] which traces the involvement in slave trading of Deal, Lyme Regis, Exeter, Falmouth, Whitehaven, Topsham, Dartmouth, Plymouth, Barnstaple, Bideford, Lancaster; with appendices giving details of ships clearing these ports for Africa, c1698-c1720