Dimensions
156 x 234 x 32mm
Comprises the log of the 'Daniel and Henry' of 1700 and the accounts of the Slave Trade from the minor ports of England, 1698 - 1725.
The discovery of the log of a slave ship on a stall in London's Farringdon Road prompted Nigel Tattersfield to make this unique investigation into a little know quarter of England's provincial maritime history. Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in the year 1700 when the 'Daniel and Henry' set sail form Darmouth, bound for the Guinea coast and Jamaica.
Tattersfield went in search of long-forgotten documents to chart how the small provincial ports of Deal, Lyme Regis, Exeter, Falmouth and Whitehaven, among others, fared both economically and morally in the early years of slave trading when so much was won and lost.
