Murder on the Middle Passage by Nicholas Rogers
How the death of a fifteen-year-old girl aboard the slave ship Recovery shook the British establishment.
This was the cold and callous pragmatism that informed so much of British imperial policy; there was no room for sentiment here, and this is the world that Rogers exposes in recounting the death of a teenage girlIt is this history - and not the triumphalist accounts of abolition and later emancipation - that we must heed; it is this history that reveals the darker, shameful, but essential truths of our imperial past. * GUARDIAN *
In this absorbing book, distinguished social historian Nicholas Rogers uses the 1792 trial of Captain John Kimber for the murder of a young woman on board Recovery [...] Rogers honors this thoughtful, respectful refusal to project his own politics onto victims of slavery who are silent in the archive, instead building a world around the murder case while drawing attention to the silence at its center. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *
Roger's well-written forensic account of a notorious murder on a slave ship is much more than a case study. It is an important revelation about the very nature of slave trading and the first flush of British abolition. Here is a micro-history exposing the wider realities of Atlantic slavery. JAMES WALVIN is Professor emeritus of History at the University of York and author and editor of over thirty books including Freedom: The Overthrowing of the Slave Empires, Sugar: The World Corrupted, from Slavery to Obesity and Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits. * . *
This work will benefit the field for years to come. . . . This microhistory allows readers a deeper understanding of not only the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, but further of how a ship's crew was held to ship's standards even within the perimeter of a port city. By doing so, Rogers demonstrates a glimpse into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. -- Jane Plummer * The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord *
In this absorbing book, distinguished social historian Nicholas Rogers uses the 1792 trial of Captain John Kimber for the murder of a young woman on board Recovery [...] Rogers honors this thoughtful, respectful refusal to project his own politics onto victims of slavery who are silent in the archive, instead building a world around the murder case while drawing attention to the silence at its center. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *
Roger's well-written forensic account of a notorious murder on a slave ship is much more than a case study. It is an important revelation about the very nature of slave trading and the first flush of British abolition. Here is a micro-history exposing the wider realities of Atlantic slavery. JAMES WALVIN is Professor emeritus of History at the University of York and author and editor of over thirty books including Freedom: The Overthrowing of the Slave Empires, Sugar: The World Corrupted, from Slavery to Obesity and Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits. * . *
This work will benefit the field for years to come. . . . This microhistory allows readers a deeper understanding of not only the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, but further of how a ship's crew was held to ship's standards even within the perimeter of a port city. By doing so, Rogers demonstrates a glimpse into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. -- Jane Plummer * The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord *
NICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto and author of Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era (Boydell, 2024), Blood Waters: War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean (Boydell, 2021), Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber (Boydell, 2020) and (with Steve Poole) of Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (Boydell, 2017).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783274826 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783274824 |
| Title | Murder on the Middle Passage |
| Author | Nicholas Rogers |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 281 |
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