The Black Joke the true story of one ship's battle against the slave trade
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, ye...
| Main Author: | Rooks, A. E. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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