History of the Liverpool Privateers: And Letters of Marque with an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812
by Gomer Williams
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"Readers should not forget what is as hard to appreciate today in the case of slave trading as it was over a hundred years ago when Gomer Williams wrote his book - that both were legitimate endeavours in the eyes of domestic and emerging international law, and, more important, neither was viewed as in any way immoral: before the late eighteenth century, slave trading and privateering were seen as indistinguishable from trading in Baltic timber or Canadian furs." David Eltis, from the new show more introduction, 2004. show lessTags
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