History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque with an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2004
- Category
- Great Britain, African American Studies
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773572096
- Publish Date
- Oct 2004
- List Price
- $125.00
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"Readers should not forget what is as hard to appreciate today in the case of slave trading as it was over a hundred years ago when Gomer Williams wrote his book - that both were legitimate endeavours in the eyes of domestic and emerging international law, and, more important, neither was viewed as in any way immoral: before the late eighteenth century, slave trading and privateering were seen as indistinguishable from trading in Baltic timber or Canadian furs." David Eltis, from the new introduction, 2004.