Between Honfleur and the Carribean: Slave ship logs
Entre Honfleur et les Antilles : les journaux de bord de la traite des esclaves
Résumé
Since the 1960s many articles have renewed our empirical and theoretical understanding of the slave trade. However, few of these studies examined ship’s logs. Using the advances made posssible by global microhistory, this articles encourages their study by illustrating the wealth of information they contain. A detailed examination of the log of an enigmatic Honfleur expedition under a neutral flag during the American Revolution renews our understanding of the slave trade and its international dimension that linked all continents of the Atlantic world.