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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

PUBLICATION 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.