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Ship of Death
2013
Overview
It is no exaggeration to say that theHankey, 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 theHankey, 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 theHankeyfrom 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 theHankeytraveled 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 theHankeyeventually 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.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Subject
/ Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- Biography
/ Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
/ Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau)
/ Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau) -- Colonization
/ Bolama Island (Guinea-Bissau) -- History -- 18th century
/ Epidemics -- History -- 18th century
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Africa / West. bisacsh
/ HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General. bisacsh
/ HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
/ HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century. bisacsh
/ HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). bisacsh
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. bisacsh
/ Yellow fever -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 18th century
/ Yellow fever -- Guinea-Bissau -- Bolama Island -- History -- 18th century
ISBN
0300194528, 9780300194524, 9780300199239, 0300199236
