Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843 [Paperback]

Pascoe Grenfell Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1993 | ISBN-10: 0933121466 | ISBN-13: 978-0933121461

Rev. Pascoe G. Hill has left us a chilling testament. Fifty Days on Board a Slave - Vessel is his unforgettable account of life on a slave ship. Hill's narrative locks fifty days into an existence of forever that haunts, not from the fear of the unknown, but the fear of the known. At a relatively safe distance of more than a hundred years away from Hill's time we know, as he did, the extended suffering of the enslaved Africans.

Product Details

• Paperback: 68 pages
• Publisher: Black Classic Pr (November 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933121466
• ISBN-13: 978-0933121461
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,669,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #42 in Books > History > Africa > Mozambique

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5.0 out of 5 stars The brutal truth that will inspire humility., June 1, 1999

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This review is from: Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843 (Paperback)

This book should be listed as required reading for all. The fact that it was written by a witness to the brutal, inhumane ambitions of mankind, is testimony with which we might more acurately explain some of our social dilemas. The author wrote, without an agenda, what the conditions were on board a slave vessel. Apalling, dehumanizing, brutal. The history depicted is a necessary lesson if we ever hope not to repeat the devestation. Spend 50 day on board a slave vessel and you will carry the experience with you forever.