The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas

Author:Hugh Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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IThe first naval vessel to be copper-sheathed was the frigate Alarm in 1761, and the second the discovery ship Dolphin.

IISee page 162.

IIIThe publication of these laws in 1672 left out the words “and such strangers.”

IVThe romantic “Afric” figures often in poems such as these, reaching, via Milton, Swift, and Gay, its consummation in the preposterous line of Bishop Heber’s hymn, which speaks of “Afric’s sunny fountains.”

VSee page 421.

VIThese Germans had opposed the slave trade from early on: some Germans held slaves, but most of them thought the institution evil. The German press in North America differentiated itself from the English one in this respect, and generally did not carry advertisements for the sale of slaves, nor notices about escaped ones.

VIIDid he mean Spartacus?

VIIIThis was the eccentric John Perceval, who also had plans to make himself king of the Jews.

IXJ. M. Barrie plagiarized the idea for his The Admirable Crichton.

X “Ceux qui se disent blancs vont les acheter des nègres à bon marché, pour les revendre cher en Amérique.”

XI“Un peuple qui trafique en ses enfants est encore plus condamnable que l’acheteur; ce négoce démontre notre supériorité.”

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