A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794

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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 Brooks

Captain Samuel Gamble’s log incorporates the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is without doubt one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to continue to exist. Bruce Mouser’s faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble’s log provides a haunting viewpoint on slave trading at the end of the 18th century. Gamble used to be captain of the British merchant Sandown. All through 1793–1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to shop for slaves and transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping firstly 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 at 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 provide an explanation for for the reader Gamble’s observations on commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast.

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