TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Billy G. TI - Ship of death: a voyage that changed the Atlantic world SN - 9780300199239 AV - RA644 .S557 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Bolama Association KW - Yellow fever KW - Guinea-Bissau KW - Bolama Island KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Epidemics KW - Caribbean Area KW - United States KW - Antislavery movements KW - Great Britain KW - Abolitionists KW - Biography KW - Social control KW - Arbovirus infections KW - Sociology KW - Virus diseases KW - Public health KW - Social sciences KW - Diseases KW - Humanities KW - Medical care KW - Medicine KW - Human rights KW - Yellow Fever KW - epidemiology KW - history KW - Enslavement KW - Human Rights KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; CHAPTER 1: The Hankey --; CHAPTER 2: The British Colonists --; CHAPTER 3: West Africa --; CHAPTER 4: Cross-Cultural Negotiations --; CHAPTER 5: Death in Bolama --; CHAPTER 6: Grumettas and the Final Days of the “Canabacs� Chickens� --; CHAPTER 7: Yellow Jack Comes to the Caribbean --; CHAPTER 8: Calamity in the United States Capital --; CHAPTER 9: Journal of the Plague Months --; Epilogue: The Living and the Dead --; The Legacy of the Hankey --; NOTES --; GLOSSARY OF PEOPLE AND PLACES OF WEST AFRICA --; A; BC --; G --; K --; M --; N --; P --; R --; S --; U --; V --; INDEX --; A --; B --; C --; D --; E --; F --; G --; H --; I --; K --; K --; L --; M --; N --; O --; P --; Q --; R --; S --; T --; U --; V --; W --; Y --; Z; 2; b N2 - "It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship's fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. Billy G. Smith chased the story of the Hankey from archive to archive across several continents, and he now brings back to light a saga that continues to haunt the modern world. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic. In the United States, tens of thousands died in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Charleston. The few survivors on the Hankey eventually limped back to London, hopes dashed and numbers decimated. Smith links the voyage and its deadly cargo to some of the most significant events of the era-the success of the Haitian slave revolution, Napoleon's decision to sell the Louisiana Territory, a change in the geopolitical situation of the new United States-and spins a riveting tale of unintended consequences and the legacy of slavery that will not die"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=660049&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -