History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque with an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812

CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION, 2004
PREFACE
PART I. — PRIVATEERING
	CHAPTER I. A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES — THE ANCIENT MARINER AND THE ANCIENT MERCHANT
	CHAPTER II. THE STORY OF CAPTAIN FORTUNATUS WRIGHT AND SELIM, THE ARMENIAN CAPTIVE
	CHAPTER III. PRIVATEERS OF THE SEVEN YEARS\' WAR
	CHAPTER IV. PRIVATEERS OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
	CHAPTER V. LIVERPOOL PRIVATEERS AND LETTERS OF MARQUE SHIPS DURING THE WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
	CHAPTER VI. LIVERPOOL PRIVATEERS DURING THE SECOND WAR WITH AMERICA
PART II. —THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE
	CHAPTER I. THE LIVERPOOL SLAVE TRADE, HOW IT ORIGINATED AND THRIVED
	CHAPTER II. CAPTAIN JOHN NEWTON
	CHAPTER III. THE MASSACRE AT OLD CALABAR
	CHAPTER IV. THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT
	CHAPTER V. HORRORS OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
	CHAPTER VI. EMOLUMENTS OF THE TRAFFIC — A MILLIONAIRE\'S VENTURES
	CHAPTER VII. THE CORPORATION AND THE SLAVE TRADE
	CHAPTER VIII. CAPTAIN HUGH CROW
APPENDIX TO PRIVATEERS
	No. I.—List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Spaniards and French, in the War of 1739-1748
	No. II.—The Enterprise Privateer, Cost of Outfit, List of Owners, Officers, etc.
	No. III. — List of Vessels trading to and from Liverpool, captured by the Enemy during the Seven Years\' War, 1756-1763
	No. IV.—List of the principal Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, in the War with America, France, Spain and Holland, 1775-1783
	No. V.—Copy of the Letter of Marque against the French, granted in 1796 to Captain John Maciver, commander of the Swallow, private ship of war, of Liverpool
APPENDIX TO SLAVE TRADE
	No. VI.—List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752
	No. VII.—List of Guineamen belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1752, with Owners\' and Commanders\' Names, and the number of Slaves carried by each
	No. VIII.—The number of Ships which cleared out from the port of Liverpool, to the coast of Africa, from the earliest date to the time of the trade being abolished in May, 1807
	No. IX.—List of Houses that annually imported upwards of 1000 Slaves, the Number of Ships employed, and Slaves by them imported, from 1783 to 1793, showing the proportion they held to all the slave-vessels that annually sailed from the port of Liverpool during that period
	No. X.—List of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, belonging to Liverpool, in the year 1807
	No. XI.—Comparative Statement of Ships cleared out from the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, to the coast of Africa, from 1795 to 1804
	No. XII.—Paid for a Negro man at Bonny, in 1801
	No. XIII.—List of Guineamen belonging to the port of Liverpool which sailed for Africa, from the 5th of January, 1798, to the 5th of January, 1799, with Owners\' and Commanders\' Names and the complement of Slaves allowed to each
	No. XIV.—Summary of the aggregate number of Liverpool ships employed in the Guinea trade, together with the number and value of the Slaves imported to the West Indies from 1783 to 1793
	No. XV.—Extract from \"A Log of the proceedings on board the Brigg Mampookata, on a voyage to Ambrize, on the coast of Angola,\" in the year 1787
	No. XVI.—Character of the Seamen in the Slave Trade
	No. XVII.—Food of the Slaves
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