This is the story of the Manx people who participated in the eighteenth century slave trade as merchants, ship owners, captains, officers surgeons and ordinary sailors.
The Manx merchants warehoused East Indian textiles, beads, gunpowder, brass pans and other goods which were collected by vessels from the mainland on their journey to the west coast of Africa. The Manx mariners were on board the slaving vessels.
A particular feature of the book is that it is based almost entirely on documents written at the time. Very extensive Manx records still survive on the Island so that a wide range of relevant material was available. This was supplemented from references to Manx activities in maritime archives elsewhere.
Appendices list Atlantic slave trade events which involved Manx people, Manx ownership of slaving vessels and Manx mariners who died on the Guinea coast.
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