Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade by Siân Rees

Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade

Siân Rees

340 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional slow-paced
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When the abolitionist Granville Sharpe bought land in Sierra Leone to ‘repatriate’ freed slaves, one former slave living in London foresaw trouble. ‘Is it possible,’ asked Ottobah Cugoano, biblically, ‘that a fountain should send forth both sweet ...

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