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Rooks, A. E.
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Great Britain. Royal Navy. African Squadron.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
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Rooks, A. E.
Great Britain. Royal Navy. African Squadron.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
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The
Black
Joke
: the
true
story
of
one
ship
's
battle
against
the
slave
trade
/ A. E. Rooks.
by
Rooks, A. E.
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.
Call #:
306.362 R777b
Subjects
Great Britain. Royal Navy. African Squadron.
Slave
trade
-- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781982128265 (hc.)
Alternate title:
True
story
of
one
ship
's
battle
against
the
slave
trade
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The most feared
ship
in Britain'
s
West Africa squadron, His Majesty's brig
Black
Joke
was
one
of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global
slave
trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria'
s
England,
Black
Joke
[Henriquetta] was first a slaving vessel itself, and
one
with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the
ship
's diverse crew and dedicated commanders would capture more ships and liberate more enslaved people than any other in the squadron. Author A.E. Rooks, chronicles the adventures on this
ship
and its crew in a narrative of the history of Britain'
s
suppression efforts. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic
slave
trade
by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to the
Black
Joke
and those that sailed with it as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. In this history of the daring feats of a single
ship
, the abolition of the international
slave
trade
is revealed as an inexplicably extended exercise involving tense negotiations between many national powers, both colonizers and formerly colonized, that would stretch on for decades longer than it should have."
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