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“dancing,”
dashee
(
comey
)
Davis, Howell
dead list.
Dean, John
death,
see
mortality
Deborah
(ship)
debt
in recruitment of crews
selling into slavery for
Delight
(ship)
Derby
(ship)
desertion
Dickinson, Dr.
“Dicky Sam,”
discipline
as brutal
dialectic of resistance and
merchants’ concern about
Newton’s strict
see also
punishment
disease,
see
sickness
“Dizia, an
African
Lady” (Boulton)
doctors (surgeons)
cat-o’-nine-tails used by
conflict with captain
eat with captain
functions of
slaves examined by
in slave-ship division of labor
wages of
Dolben, Sir William
Dolben Act (Slave Carrying Bill) of
Donnan, Elizabeth.
“door of no return,”
DuBois, W. E. B..
Duke, Antera.
Duke of Argyle
(ship)
Dunbar, Charles
Duncan, Captain
Duncan, John.
Dundas, Sir Henry
Dunfry, Peter
Dunn, John
D’Wolf, James .n..
D’Wolf family.
dysentery
Dyula merchants
 
Eagle
(ship).
Earl of Halifax
(ship)
Edwards, Captain
Edwards, Richard
Efik
Ekpe (Leopard) Society
Elford, Williamn.
Eliza
(ship)
Elizabeth
(ship)
Ellery, William
Ellis, Thomas
Ellison, Henry
on captain as trader
on education and advancement for sailors
on sailors entering slave trade
on separation of slaves
on slave insurrections
on superfluous sailors in West Indies
Eltis, David
Emilia
(ship)
Endeavor
(ship)
English language
Enterprize
(ship)
Equiano, Olaudah
African home of
autobiography of
in Barbados
controversy over origins of.
father as slaveholder
as Gustavus Vassa
kidnapping of
in Middle Passage
new connections with his countrymen
passage to England of
personal names in account of
purchases his freedom
on the slave ship
on white people
Essay on Colonization, An
(Wadstrom)
Essay on the Comparative Efficiency of Regulation of Abolition as applied to the Slave Trade, An
(Clarkson)
Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade, An
(Clarkson)
Essay on the Study and Composition of Biography, An
(Stanfield).
Essex
(ship)
ethnogenesis
Europe Supported by Africa & America
(Blake)
Evans, Jenkin
dispels rumor about long voyage
as hypocrite
“Sarah” as “favorite” of
slave plot on ship of
stations guard in male captives’ quarters
Ewe
exemplary punishment
Expedition
(ship)
 
Fage, J.D..
Falconbridge, Alexander
on cat-o’-nine-tails
Clarkson and
on Fraser
on Gold Coast slaves
on necessary tubs
on separation of slaves
on sexual relations on slave ships
on sharks in Bonny
on slave ships and slaughterhouses
on violence among slaves
Falconer, William.
Fante
on
Brooks
chaining of
Chamba as enemies of
knowledge of Europeans and sailing
in slave trade
“favorites,”
Fellowes, Joseph
Fentiman, Edward
Ferrers Galley
(ship)
Ferret
(ship)
fever
fictive kinship
fire
firearms,
see
guns (firearms)
Fisher, John
Fisher, Thomas
Fitzpatrick, Sir Jeremiah
flogging (whipping)
adding salt to the wound
cat-o’-nine-tails
Equiano on
for insurrection
Noble on his use of
for refusal to eat
for songs of resistance
Stanfield on
unmerciful
Florida
(ship)
Fly
(ship)
Fon
food
for captain
for crew
Igbo
short allowance
for slaves
women slaves in preparation of
Foreign Slave Trade Bill of
Forrester, John
Fort James
Fort Komenda
fort trade
Fountain, John.
Fousha, Henry
Fox, Anthony
Fox, Charles James
Fox, John
Fraser, James.
Free Love
(ship)
Freeman, Captain
free traders
French Revolution
Fryer, James
Fulbe
Fuse, Arthur
Futa Jallon
 
Gamble, Samuel
Georgia
ghost ships
Glover, George
Gola
Gold Coast
belief in going home to Guinea after death in
Cape Coast Castle
foods from
Fraser on slaves from
health of slaves from
insurrections among slaves from
Lauren on slaves from
as relatively healthy for whites
slave insurrection off
slaves from interior markets purchased in
as source of slaves
Stanfield on hiring Fante workers on
Goldsmith, Oliver
Gomez, Michael.
Goodboy, John
Gordon, Thomas
Goree Island
Grafton, Joseph and Joshua
Green, Peter
Greyhound
(ship)
grog
Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw
grumettoes
Guerard, John.
Guinea casks
Guinea Voyage: A Poem in Three Books, The
(Stanfield). .
Guinea worm
gunners (armorers)
gun room
guns (firearms)
African ruling groups possess
Aro use of
in Benin
for guarding captives
slaves traded for
slaves using in insurrections
for terrorizing captives
 
Haitian Revolution
Hall, John Ashley
Hamilton, John
Harding, Richard
Hardingham, John
hardware of bondage
Hardwicke, Eustace
Harms, Robert
Harris, Charles
Harrison, David
Hawk
(ship)
Hawkins, Josephn.
health care
as lacking for slaves
sailors complain about
see also
doctors (surgeons)
Henderson, David
Hesketh
(ship)
Hewlett, Captain
Hilgrove, Nicholas
Hill, George
Hind
(ship)
History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament
(Clarkson)
Hobhouse, Isaac
Hogg, James
Holiday, King of Bonny
Holmes, Captain
House of Slaves (Goree Island)
Hudibras
(ship) .
Humbe
Humble, Michael
Hurry, William
Hutchinson, William
 
Ibau
Ibibio
Igala
Igbo
cannibalism feared by
decentralized social organization of
egalitarian practices on slave ships
Olaudah Equiano
female slave from
Ibibio as enemies of
language as widely understood
Laurens on
as product of slave trade
suicide by.
Ijo
Industrious Bee
(ship)
insurance
insurrection on slave ships
on
Africa
barricado for defense against
Brooks
image and
on
Brownlow
causes of
on
Delight
on French slaver
on
Hudibras
on
New Britannia
outcomes of
punishment for
on
Unity
on
Wasp
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
(Equiano)
interpreters
Ireland, Jonathan
Islam
 
Jackson, Richard
Newton makes alliance with
Newton sails with
“Now have a hell of my own,”
punishes slaves for attempted insurrection
terror used by
Jamaica
Captain Tomba delivered to
as destination for slaves
Kingston
Laurens trades in
Riland returns to
Stanfield sails to
Tacky’s Revolt
James .L.R.
James, William
Jasper, Captain
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeffreys, Ninian
Jenkins, William.
jihad
Jillett, Thomas
Job Ben Solomon
Joe-men
John
(ship)
judicial punishments
 
Kabes, John.
Kasanje
Katherine
(ship)
Kelsal, James
Kennelly, John
Kettle, James
kidnapping
African merchants and
African war as
Bobangi on
of Equiano
of Gronniosaw
Newton on
resistance to
King, Thomas
Kingston (Jamaica)
kinship, fictive
Klein, Herbert S...
Kongo
Konny, John
Kru
 
Lace family
Lady Neilson
(ship)
landsmen
languages
Lapsansky, Philip.
Lapworth, Will
Laroche, James
Laurens, Henry
Lawson, Caesar
Lawson, Edward
Leadstine, John
Lees, William
Leigh, William
Lemma Lemma, Captain
Lewis, Job
Leyland, Thomas
Liberty
(ship).
Lines, William
Littleton, William
Liverpool
becomes leading slave trading port
Bight of Biafra trade of
Brooks
sails from
Clarkson’s research in
delegates to parliamentary hearings from
farewells to slave ships in
first recorded voyages from
Manesty
mortality rate for sailors from
Newton sails from
Noble family of.
Norris
Parr
built at
recruiting slavers’ crews in
“Bully” Roberts sails from
sailors’ insurrection of
slave-ship captains from
slave ships built in
specialized slaving vessels built at
Stanfield sails from
trend toward larger vessels in
wage reduction in.
Loango
London
Liverpool overtakes in slave trade
Morice
trend toward larger vessels in
longboats
Lopez, Aaron
Louis
Lovejoy, Paul..
Loyal George
(ship)
Luanda
Lunda Empire
 
McBride, Captain
McGauley, James
McIntosh, William
Mackdonald, Peter
Magnus, John
Malinke
manacles
Manchester, Isaac.
Manesty, Joseph
Adlington
owned by.
Newton employed by
slave ships built by
Mane Wars
Mann, Luke
Manning, Patrick.
Mansfield, Judge
maritime tongues
Marjoribanks, John.
Marshall, Thomas
Mary
(ship)
Massachusetts
Matamba
mates
cat-o’-nine-tails used by
eat with captain
learning required of
in slave-ship division of labor
wages for
watches taken by
Matthews, John
Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahádee, King of Dahomy, and Inland Country of Guiney
(Norris)
Mende
Mendoss, John
merchants
African
captain as representative of
captains employed by
Clarkson and
Laurens
in Liverpool insurrection of
Morice
Norris

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