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SLAVE SHIPS AND SLAVING

Bartering for Slaves on the Guinea Coast From a colored lithograph in the Macpherson Collection

SLAVE SHIPS

AND

SLAVING

By

George Francis Dow

with an Introduction by

Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost, R.N.R.

SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY

1927

IPublication Number Fifteen

of the

Marine Research Society

Copyright, 1927, by

The Marine Research Society

Printed in the United States

E. L. Hildreth & Co.

Brattleboro, Vt.

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