Mutiny on the Black Prince looks unflinchingly at the greed, exploitation and violence that powered Britain's immense slave trade during the eighteenth century. This important new book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how the slave trade operated and its importance for shaping global capitalism.

Autorentext
James H. Sweet is the Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the prize-winning author of Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 and Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World. He is a past president of the American Historical Association.

Klappentext

The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: Masters of Ships

• Chapter 2: Blunt Tars

• Chapter 3: The Politics of the Sea

• Chapter 4: Old Calabar

• Chapter 5: The Black Prince

• Chapter 6: Liberty?

• Chapter 7: Diplomacy

• Conclusion: Afterlives

• Notes

• Bibliography

• Index