Black Joke : (Record no. 338437)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2021949941
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781982128265
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781982128272
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781982128289
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 326.8094109034
Item number ROO/B
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Source of number CC
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rooks, A. E.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Black Joke :
Remainder of title the true story of one ship's battle against the slave trade /
Statement of responsibility, etc A. E. Rooks.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Icon Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2022.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade. The most feared ship in Britain's West Africa Squadron, His Majesty's brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria's England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the ship's diverse crew and dedicated commanders would capture more ships and liberate more enslaved people than any other in the Squadron. Now, author A.E. Rooks chronicles the adventures on this ship and its crew in a brilliant, lively narrative of the history of Britain's suppression efforts. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to the Black Joke and those that sailed with it as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. In this history of the daring feats of a single ship, the abolition of the international slave trade is revealed as an inexplicably extended exercise involving tense negotiations between many national powers, both colonizers and formerly colonized, that would stretch on for decades longer than it should have. Harrowing and heartbreaking, The Black Joke is a crucial and deeply compelling work of history, both as a reckoning with slavery and abolition and as a lesson about the power of political will-or the lack thereof"--
653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term Antislavery movements
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Uncontrolled term Antislavery movements - Great Britain - History
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Uncontrolled term Great Britain - Royal Navy - African Squadron
653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term Naval history
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Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Date acquired Full call number Barcode Date last seen Cost, replacement price Koha item type
        English Main Library Main Library 11/07/2023 326.8094109034 ROO/B 506643 28/02/2024 899.00 Lending

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