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The Black Barque / A Tales of the Pirate Slave-Ship Gentle Hand on Her Last African Cruise

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A seaman narrates his service aboard a pirate slaver on a perilous African cruise, recounting recruitment, life among a rough multinational crew, clashes with officers, and illicit dealings that lead to rising suspicion and open mutiny. The voyage yields violent encounters at sea, the taking and management of human cargo, and desperate attempts to repel boarders. As ill luck and betrayal multiply, the ship is driven toward ruin; the narrator survives the final catastrophe and reflects on the voyage's brutal hardships and moral consequences.

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Title: The Black Barque

Author: T. Jenkins Hains

Illustrator: W. Herbert Dunton

Release date: November 20, 2017 [eBook #56017]
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Language: English

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A Tale of the Pirate Slave-Ship
Gentle Hand
on Her Last African Cruise
Works of
T. JENKINS HAINS
The Windjammers $1.50
The Black Barque 1.50
The Voyage of the Arrow 1.50
Bahama Bill 1.50
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building
BOSTON           MASS.

“SPRANG WITH THE EASE OF A CAT UPON OUR POOP-RAIL.”
(See page 227)

The
Black Barque

A Tale of the Pirate Slave-Ship
Gentle Hand
on Her Last African Cruise
By
T. JENKINS HAINS
AUTHOR OF
“THE STRIFE OF THE SEA,” “THE WIND-JAMMERS,” ETC.
Illustrated by
W. HERBERT DUNTON
BOSTON
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1905
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
All rights reserved
Published February, 1905
Fifth Impression, March, 1908.
COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
TO THE
MEMORY OF MY GRANDFATHER
Thornton Jenkins
REAR-ADMIRAL UNITED STATES NAVY
AND HIS COUSIN
Sir Robert Jenkins, K.C.B.
VICE-ADMIRAL ROYAL NAVY
WHOSE SERVICES TO THE BLACK MAN SHOULD NOT
BE FORGOTTEN
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED