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258. Humphry Morice to Stephen Bull, October 30, 1722, “Book Containing Orders & Instructions for Stephen Bull Commander of the Sarah for the Coast of Africa with an Invoice of his Cargoe and Journal of Trade &c. on the said Coast. 2d Voyage. Anno 1722”, Morice Papers; Memoirs of Crow. P. 22.

259. John Chilcott, John Anderson, T. Lucas, and James Rogers to Captain George Merrick, Bristol, 13th October 1774, Account Book of the Africa, 1774-1776, BCL; Boyd to Connolly, July 24, 1807 // Donnan IV. P. 568.

260. Robert Bostock to Captain James Fryer of the Bess, no date (but 17910, Bostock Letter-books, 387 MD 54-55. Cm.: TSTD, #80502.

Я не нашел никаких подобных угроз в инструкциях судовладельцев.

261. Chilcott et al. to Merrick, October 13, 1774, Account Book of the Africa, 1774-1776. BCL; Behrendt S. D. Crew Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century // Slavery and Abolition. 1997. No 18. P. 49-71.

262. Там же. См. также: Davies A. G.The Living and the Dead: White Mortality in West Africa, 1684-1732 // S. L. Engerman, E. D. Genovese, eds. Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. P. 83-98.

263. Starke to Westmore // Donnan IV. P. 76; Joseph and Joshua Grafton to Captain ***, November 12, 1785 // Donnan III. P. 78-79; Chilcott et al. to Merrick, October 13,1774, Account Book of the Africa; Robert Bostock to Captain Samuel Gamble, November 16, 1790, Bostock Letter-books 387 MD 54-55; Chilcott et al. to Baker, August 1, 1776, Account Book of the Africa.

264. Joseph and Joshua Grafton to Captain ***, November 12, 1785 // Donnan III. P. 80; William Snelgrave to Humphry Morice, Jaqueen, April 16,1727, Morice Papers.

265. Boulton T. The Sailor’s Farewell; Or, the Guinea Outfit, a Comedy in Three Acts. Liverpool, 1768; Newport Mercury. 1770. July 9.

Когда позже Бултон написал The Voyage, a Poem in Seven Parts (Boston, 1773), он не упомянул о болезненном воспоминании (если он писал о том же самом путешествии).

Он не упомянул ни о рабах, ни об их восстании. См.: TSTD, #91564.

266. An Account of the Life. P. 19; Three Years Adventures. P. 6. Бултон не упомянул об одном из самых важных средств вербовки: об агентах по найму, которые не стеснялись прибегнуть к всевозможным гнусным средствам, чтобы заполучить матросов на борт работорговых судов.

267. Пример тщательной подготовки к плаванию см.: Account Book of the Africa, 1774-1776, BCL.

268. Hawkins J. A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa, and Travels into the Interior of that Country; containing Particular Descriptions of the Climate and Inhabitants, particulars concerning the Slave Trade. Troy, N.Y.: Luther Pratt, 2nd ed., 1797. P. 150.

269. Dicky Sam. Liverpool and Slavery: An Historical Account of the Liverpool-African Slave Trade. Liverpool: A. Bowker & Son, 1884. P.21-22.

270. Interview of Mr. Thompson in: Substance. P. 24; Testimony of James Towne, in 1791 // HCSP, 82:27.

271. К примеру, см.: Times. 1808. January 12; Newport Mercury. 1767. June 15; An Account of the Life. P. 26; Enquirer. 1806. September 12; Unparalleled Cruelty in a Guinea Captain (H. Forshaw, printer,* no place, no date, but c. 1805), Holt and Gregson Papers, 942 HOL 10, LRO.

272. Connecticut Courant. 1789. August 10. См. также: American Minerva. 1974. May 15.

В том случае, когда капитан невольничьего судна просто ударил кулаком члена команды, обращение с ним все равно можно назвать «очень мягким». См.: Масnаmеrа and Worsdale v. Barry, August 26, 1729, Records of the South Carolina Court of Admiralty, 1716-1732, f 729, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

273. Anecdote XI (about the Othello, Captain James McGauley) I I Substance. P. 134; TSTD, #82978.

О том, как капитаны приказывают рабам бить плетьми или оскорблять матросов, см.: Seamen v. John Ebsworthy (1738), “Minutes of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Charles Town, South Carolina”, 1716-1763, Manuscripts Department, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Barker R. The Unfortunate Shipwright, or, Cruel Captain, being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings of Robert Barker, Late Carpenter on board the Thetis Snow of Bristol; on a Voyage from thence to the Coast of Guinea and Antigua. Orig. publ. 1760; new edition, London, “printed for the SUFFERER for his own Benefit; and by no one else”, 1775. P. 26.

274. Macnamera and Worsdale v. Barry, South Carolina Admiralty, ff. 713, 729.

Об использовании оружия см. Testimony of James Towne, 1791 // HCSP, 82:29.