Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber by Nicholas Rogers

Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber

Nicholas Rogers

281 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional medium-paced
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On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank...

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