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_aShip of death _h[Texte imprimé] : _ba voyage that changed the Atlantic world / _cBilly G. Smith |
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_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c2013 |
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_a1 vol. (XVIII-306 p.) : _bill. ; _c24 cm |
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_a" It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship's fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. Billy G. Smith chased the story of the Hankey from archive to archive across several continents, and he now brings back to light a saga that continues to haunt the modern world. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic. In the United States, tens of thousands died in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Charleston. The few survivors on the Hankey eventually limped back to London, hopes dashed and numbers decimated. Smith links the voyage and its deadly cargo to some of the most significant events of the era-the success of the Haitian slave revolution, Napoleon's decision to sell the Louisiana Territory, a change in the geopolitical situation of the new United States-and spins a riveting tale of unintended consequences and the legacy of slavery that will not die"-- _cProvided by publisher |
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| 504 | _aNotes bibliogr. | ||
| 653 | _aHankey (Ship : 1784) | ||
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_aYellow fever _zGuinea-Bissau _zBolama Island _xHistory _y18th century |
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| 653 | _aBolama Association | ||
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_aEpidemics _xHistory _y18th century |
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_aYellow fever _zCaribbean Area _xHistory _y18th century |
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_aYellow fever _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century |
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_aBolama Island (Guinea-Bissau) _xColonization |
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_aAntislavery movements _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century |
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_aAbolitionists _zGreat Britain _vBiography |
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_aBolama Island (Guinea-Bissau) _xHistory _y18th century |
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| 653 | _aHISTORY / Modern / 18th Century | ||
| 653 | _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery | ||
| 653 | _aHISTORY / Africa / West | ||
| 653 | _aHISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General | ||
| 653 | _aHISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) | ||
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