Emma Christopher is a Scientia Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her books include Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730–1808; A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution, winner of the Kay Daniels Prize of the Australian Historical Association; and Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World.
A compelling and entirely unique glimpse into the daily operation
of a slave-trading business on the West African coast, including
accounts of individual British and American slavers, enslaved
Africans employed on the coast, and captive Africans who narrowly
escaped the middle passage." - Rebecca Shumway, author of The Fante
and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
"An extraordinary achievement. By following the paper trail of a
single West African slave-trading business, Christopher opens a
window onto the shadowy world of illicit slavers and those they
enslaved after the British abolition of the trade in 1807. Indeed,
she has found the only known first-hand accounts from Africans
employed in Sierra Leone's slave factories." - Randy J. Sparks,
author of Where the Negroes Are Masters
"Christopher's meticulous account of the incident and its
far-reaching ripples, based on court documents, is enlivened by her
intelligent reading between the lines, into the historical
silence." - Sydney Morning Herald
"An extraordinary, meticulous study of a single chapter in the
early efforts of the British to suppress the legal slave trade.
Christopher writes with nuance and an eye for human experience." -
Choice (A Choice Outstanding Academic Title)
"Christopher weaves a compelling tale of the nineteenth-century
slave trade, the men and women involved in it, and its complex
interaction with the British world." - Journal of Australian
Colonial History
"Cinematic. . . . There are no heroes in this rollicking story, but
there are lots of fascinating villains." - Australian Book Review
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