The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare, Sean M. Kelley
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare, Sean M. Kelley
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The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina

Author: Sean M. Kelley

Narrator: Tom Zingarelli

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/07/2016


Synopsis

From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage, detailing everything from the identities of the captain and crew to their wild encounters with inclement weather, slave traders, and near-mutiny. But most importantly, Kelley tracks the cohort of slaves aboard the Hare from their purchase in Africa to their sale in South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, Kelley provides rare insight into the communal lives of slaves and sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence on the formation of African American culture.

In this immersive exploration, Kelley connects the story of enslaved people in the United States to their origins in Africa as never before. Told uniquely from the perspective of one particular voyage, this book brings a slave ship's journey to life, giving us one of the clearest views of the eighteenth-century slave trade.

About Sean M. Kelley

Sean M. Kelley is professor of history at the University of Essex. He is the author of The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina and Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821-1865. He lives in Colchester, UK.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lee on June 01, 2020

A good exploration of the slave trade, this book looks at a single journey of a single slaving ship, following it as it moves from Providence, to Africa's west coast to Barbados and then to Charleston. I was a little annoyed that so much of this book was speculative. The premise of the book is that......more

Goodreads review by Ornella on July 19, 2017

It is a serie of facts and numbers. Interesting, but kind of arid. Since I am interested in the hystory , I am glad I read it.......more

Goodreads review by Magila on October 18, 2019

First of all, I think that the book rightly deserves four out of five stars but I did go ahead and bump it up because I don’t believe it deserves to have so low of an aggregate score. Secondarily, in relation to the scoring, published by UNC Press, I believe the book deserves to be considered more a......more

Goodreads review by Hank on December 03, 2020

(NOTE: I'm stingy with stars. For me 2 stars means a good book or a B. 3 stars means a very good book or a B+. 4 stars means an outstanding book or an A {only about 5% of the books I read merit 4 stars}. 5 stars means an all time favorite or an A+ {Only one of 400 or 500 books rates this!). Unfortuna......more