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Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship Pearl

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Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship Pearl

The barbarity of the enforced migration of Africans to the Caribbean and the realities of the transatlantic slave trade are fully revealed in Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship PEARL. The nonchalant accounts of the awful details of suffering and death are brought into sharp relief by the editors who reconstruct four voyages of the PEARL between 1785 and 1793. The ship was owned by Bristol businessman James Rogers, and the letters in this collection are but a small sample of the 15 boxes of correspondence comprising the Rogers papers held at The National Archives at Kew in the United Kingdom. 

About the Author

David V. Trotman is a Professor in the Department of History at York University and a research associate of the Harriet Tubman Institute and the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean.

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