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395. Boston Weekly News-Letter. 1737. September 1, Boston Gazette. 1762. November 22; ParkM. Travels into the Interior of Africa, Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1791 / ed. Kate Ferguson Marsters. Orig. publ. 1799; rpt. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000. P. 305.

396. Pennsylvania Gazette. 1741, July 30; Royal Georgia Gazette. 1781. June 14; Testimony of Peter Whitfield Branker // HLSP, 3:190. См. также: Testimony of Captains Richard Pearson and John Olderman // Ibid., 121, 151. О других случаях, когда невольники участвовали в сражениях с каперами , см.: Boston Weekly News-Letter. 1760. July 31; Massachusetts Spy: Or, the Worcester Gazette. 1798. April 4; Commercial Advertiser. 1805. July 19; American Mercury. 1806. October 2; Testimony of James Penny, 1789 // HCSP, 69:117; Memoirs of Crow. P. 102.

397. Enquirer. 1804. September 26; 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. 20; Testimony of John Olderman // HLSP, 3:150; Captain James Penny to Miles Barber, July 24, 1784, Baillie v. Hartley, exhibits regarding the Slave Ship Comte du Nord and Slave Trade; schedule, correspondence, accounts, E 219/377, NA; Newport Mercury. 1765. November 18.

398. Barque Eliza’s Journal, Robert Hall, Commander, from Liverpool to Cruize 31 Days & then to Africa & to Demarary; mounts 14 Nine & Six Pounders, with 31 Men & boys. Royal African Company Records, T70/1220, NA; Testimony of Peter Whitfield Branker // HLSP, 2:119; Testimony of John Ashley Hall // HCSP, 72:233,273.

399. Testimony of Falconbridge, 1790 // HCSP, 72:303; Testimony of Fraser, 1790 // HCSP, 71:28.

400. Three Years Adventures. P. 116-17; Testimony of John Ashley Hall, 1790 // HCSP, 72:230.

401. Falconbridge A. An Account of the Slave Trade. P. 26.

402. Testimony of James Bowen, 1789 // HCSP, 69:125; Testimony of John Knox, 1789 // HCSP, 68:158.

403. Captain John Adams. Sketches taken during Ten Voyages to Africa, Between the Years 1786 and 1800; including Observations on the Country between Cape Palmas and the River Congo; and Cursory Remarks on the Physical and Moral Character of the Inhabitants. London, 1823; rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970. P. 9.

404. Voyage to Guinea, Antego, Bay of Campeachy, Cuba, Barbadoes, &c. (1714-1723), Add. Ms. 39946, ff. 9-10, BL; Mouser B., ed. The Log of the Sandown. P. 103; The Slave Trade at Calabar, 1700-1705 // Donnan II. P. 15; Information of James Towne // Substance. P. 236.

405. Falconbridge A. An Account of the Slave Trade. P. 28; Examination of Rice Harris (1733), HCA 1/56, ff. 73-74; Testimony of James Arnold, 1789 // HCSP, 69:126.

406. Aubrey T. The Sea-Surgeon, or the Guinea Man’s Vade Месит. In which is laid down, The Method of curing such Diseases as usually happen Abroad, especially on the Coast of Guinea: with the best way of treating Negroes, both in Health and in Sickness. Written for the Use of young Sea-Surgeons. London, 1729. P. 129-32; Atkins J. AVoy age to Guinea. P. 60; Testimony of Trotter, 1790 // HCSP, 73:84-85.

Много случаев отношения к смерти среди африканцев исследовано с большим пониманием, см.: Brown V. The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

См. также: Kiple K. F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. P. 1-75.

Полезным резюме обширных исследований о смертности в работорговле является работа: Klein Н. S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. P. 130-142.

407. Testimony of Fraser, 1790 // HCSP, 71:58; Falconbridge A. An Account of the Slave Trade. P. 32; Testimony of Falconbridge, 1790 // HCSP, 72:303.

408. Extracts of such Journals of the Surgeons employed in Ships trading to the Coast of Africa, since the first of August 1788, as have been transmitted to the Custom House in London, and which relate to the State of the Slaves during the Time they were on Board the Ships. Slave Trade Papers, 3 May 1792, HL/ PO/JO/10/7/920; Log-books, etc. of slave ships, 1791-7. Main Papers, 17-19 June 1799, Hl/PO/JO/10/7/1104; Certificates of Slaves Taken Aboard Ships, 1794, HL/PO/JO/lO/7/982, все находятся в HLRO.

Следует отметить, что далеко не все врачи перечислили причины смерти; архивы содержат более восьмидесяти шести журналов. Некоторые из этих журналов (хотя и не все) легли в основу исследования Ричарда X. Штекеля и Ричарда А. Йенсена: Steckel R. Я, Jensen R. A. New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade // Journal of Economic History. 1986. No 46. P. 57-77.