Book cover of Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade

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At the start of the American War of Independence, Great Britain dominated overseas commerce and was the leading slave-trading nation in the world. In 1776, American privateers—privately owned ships granted commissions by the Continental Congress to attack and disrupt enemy trade—began to prey on British merchantmen. Some privateers captured British…

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1 author picked Dark Voyage as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I liked the way it revealed how privateers fighting for American freedom pursued slaves.

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