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Author Connors, Anthony J., author.

Title Went to the devil : a Yankee whaler in the slave trade / Anthony J. Connors
Published Amherst : Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 185 pages)
Contents A note on the Transatlantic slave trade -- A whaling career -- Captain -- The parting -- "Keep a high toe nail & a stiff upper lip" -- The wreck of the Iris -- Recovery -- "What's in the wind?" -- Evasion -- The case against Captain Davoll -- The sham whalers of New Bedford -- Slave traders and abolitionists -- The curious case of the Ship B -- Captain Edward S. Davoll (1822-1863) -- Consequences
Summary "Edward Davoll was a respected New Bedford whaling captain in an industry at its peak in the 1850s. But mid-career, disillusioned with whaling, desperately lonely at sea, and experiencing financial problems, he turned to the slave trade, with disastrous results. Why would a man of good reputation, in a city known for its racial tolerance and Quaker-inspired abolitionism, risk engagement with this morally repugnant industry? In this riveting biography, Anthony J. Connors explores this question by detailing not only the troubled, adventurous life of this man but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Set in an era of social and political fragmentation and impending civil war, when changes in maritime law and the economics of whaling emboldened slaving agents to target captains and their vessels for the illicit trade, Davoll's story reveals the deadly combination of greed and racial antipathy that encouraged otherwise principled Americans to participate in the African slave trade"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2019)
Subject Davoll, Edward S.
Davoll, Edward S. -- Ethics
Slave traders -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- Biography
Whaling masters -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- Biography
Slave trade -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 19th century
Whaling -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- History -- 19th century
Seafaring life -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Ethics
Seafaring life
Slave trade
Slave traders
Whaling
Whaling masters
SUBJECT New Bedford (Mass.) -- Biography
Subject Africa
Cuba
Massachusetts -- New Bedford
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613766545
1613766548