{"product_id":"mutiny-on-the-black-prince-slavery-piracy-and-the-limits-of-liberty-in-the-revolutionary-atlantic-world-hardcover","title":"Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames H. Sweet\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1768, the British slave ship \u003cem\u003eBlack Prince\u003c\/em\u003e, departed the port of Bristol, bound for West Africa. It never arrived. Before reaching Old Calabar, the crew mutinied, murdering the captain and his officers. The mutineers renamed the ship \u003cem\u003eLiberty\u003c\/em\u003e, elected new officers, and set out for Brazil. By the time the ship arrived there, the crew had disintegrated into a violent mob and fired into the port city. After the \u003cem\u003eBlack Prince\u003c\/em\u003e wrecked off the coast of Hispaniola, the rebels fled to outposts around the Atlantic world. An eight-year manhunt ensued. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book follows the crew's turn to piracy and the merchant-owners' response to the uprising. At the very moment that the American Revolution unfolded in North America, the \u003cem\u003eBlack Prince\u003c\/em\u003e's owners conducted a \"shadow\" revolution, mobilizing the power of the British Crown to seek justice and restitution on their behalf. These private merchants used state surveillance, policing, extradition, capital punishment, international diplomacy, and even warfare in order to protect their wealth. During an era of professed liberty and freedom, the privatization of state power was already emerging, replacing monarchies with corporate oligarchies, presaging a new kind of political power in the Atlantic world. The eighteenth-century Bristol slave merchants and subsequent generations of their families accrued great fortunes from the trade and invested it in early British banks, railroads, insurance companies, industrial manufacturing, and even the Anglican Church. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eMutiny on the Black Prince\u003c\/em\u003e narrates the dramatic story of the events onboard and the merchant owners' efforts to capture the rebels from around the Atlantic world, as well as the way that British slavery shaped the industrializing Atlantic economy and the evolution of the modern corporate state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames H. Sweet \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eRecreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDomingos ?lvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World. \u003c\/em\u003eHe is a past president of the American Historical Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9.38 x 6.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701336437069,"sku":"9780197692721","price":54.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/ABbj5JK2SX9780197692721.webp?v=1762219231","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/mutiny-on-the-black-prince-slavery-piracy-and-the-limits-of-liberty-in-the-revolutionary-atlantic-world-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}