NICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in History at York University, Toronto and author of Murder on the Middle Passage: The Trial of Captain Kimber (Boydell, 2020) and (with Steve Poole) of Bristol from Below; Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (Boydell, 2017).
Abbreviations Introduction: Hide Tides, Atlantic Waters 1. The Pilots of
Pill 2. The Hazards of the Bristol Slave Trade 3. Slave Ship Sociology 4.
The Unfortunate Shipwright, or the Trials of Robert Barker 5. Mutiny and
Murder on Bristol's Long-Haul Ships, 1720-1770 6. Bristol Privateering in
the Mid-Eighteenth Century 7. The Impressment of James Caton, 1779 8. New
York in Bristol: the Crugers 9. The Politics of Abolition in Late
Eighteenth-Century Bristol Bibliography
