"Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is                  the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa.... [Mouser's] exhaustive                  background research and editing are exemplary." -- George                  BrooksCaptain Samuel Gamble's log contains the record of a                  slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best                  firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive. Bruce Mouser's faithfully                  transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log provides a haunting                  perspective on slave trading at the end of the 18th century. Gamble was captain of                  the British merchant Sandown. During 1793--1794, the ship embarked on a commercial                  venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and transport them                  for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the                  Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West                  Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast                  and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well a yellow fever epidemic that swept the                  Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Mouser's extensive                  annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader                  Gamble's observations on commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper                  Guinea coast.

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