Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Figures viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction: High Tides, Atlantic Waters 1
7. 1 THE PILOTS OF PILL 13
8. 2 THE HAZARDS OF THE BRISTOL SLAVE TRADE 34
9. 3 SLAVE-SHIP SOCIOLOGY 57
10. 4 THE UNFORTUNATE SHIPWRIGHT, OR, THE TRIALS OF ROBERT BARKER 74
11. 5 MUTINY AND MURDER ON BRISTOL’S LONG-HAUL SHIPS, 1720–70 98
12. 6 BRISTOL PRIVATEERING IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 125
13. 7 THE IMPRESSMENT OF JAMES CATON, 1779 156
14. 8 NEW YORK IN BRISTOL: THE CRUGERS 174
15. 9 THE POLITICS OF ABOLITION IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRISTOL 198
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY 228
17. INDEX 243