Research Catalog

Title

Six months' service in the African blockade : from April to October, 1848, in command of H.M.S. Bonetta / By Commander Forbes.

Author

Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn)

Publication

• London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849.
• London : Printed by S. & J. Bentley, and Henry Fley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane, 1849.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871
• S. & J. Bentley and Henry Fley (Firm), printer.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

ix, 145, [1] pages : Illustrations, hand colored map; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Alternative Title

African blockade

Subject

• Slave trade
• Slave trade > Africa, West
• Voyages and travels
• Slave trade > Sierra Leone
• Travel
• Discoveries in geography
• Africa, West > Description and travel
• Africa > Description and travel
• Africa > Discovery and exploration
• Sierra Leone > Maps
• Liberia > Maps
• West Africa
• Sierra Leone
• Africa
• Liberia

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Maps.

Note

• "London: Printed by S. & J. Bentley, and Henry Fley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane."--verso of title page; also on page [1] at end.

With (note)

• With a folding hand colored map or: "Plan shewing the countries between Sierra Leone and Liberia: whose Sovereigns signed the anti-slave-trade treaty."

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on digital format via various sites and databases.

Contents

Introduction -- Voyage out -- Sierra Leone -- Cape Mount, no. 2 -- Cape Mount, no. 2 -- Cape Mount, no. 3 -- Slave factories -- Slave ships -- The slave trade at Gallinos -- Liberia -- Conclusion -- Appendix, nos. 1 to 8.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-F (Forbes, F. E. Six months' service in the African blockade)

OCLC

26272769

Author

Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn), author.

Title

Six months' service in the African blockade : from April to October, 1848, in command of H.M.S. Bonetta / By Commander Forbes.

Publisher

London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849.

Manufacturer

London : Printed by S. & J. Bentley, and Henry Fley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane, 1849.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Physical Medium

12mo. rdabf

With:

With a folding hand colored map or: "Plan shewing the countries between Sierra Leone and Liberia: whose Sovereigns signed the anti-slave-trade treaty."

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 3, page 2606, column 1, row 1

Additional Formats

Also available on digital format via various sites and databases.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this book. Copy in Sc Rare 326.1-F (accession no. E365033) is an (October 30, 1945) addition to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer and Lawrence Reddick were the Collection Librarian & Curator; according to G.K. Halls, v. 3, page 2606, column 1, row 1). It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection" and the NYPL's perforated stamp. Imperfect: it lacks the frontispiece, bound in navy blue buckram cloth over boards, Library binding, and gilt spine.

Copy in Sc Rare D 20-6 (Lapidus Collection) is a gift, which is part of the Lapidus Collection added to the Schomburg collection in 2020. Lapidus Collection copy has a frontispiece, a folding hand-colored map or: "Plan shewing the countries between Sierra Leone and Liberia: whose Sovereigns signed the anti-slave-trade treaty." Bound in aged avocado green buckram with a gilt design.

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

Added Author

Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871, publisher.

S. & J. Bentley and Henry Fley (Firm), printer.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Forbes, Frederick E. (Frederick Edwyn). Six months' service in the African blockade (OCoLC)613071798

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-F (Forbes, F. E. Six months' service in the African blockade)

Sc Rare D 20-6 (Lapidus Collection)