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Description and Holding Information
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1871, Palmer, Kidnapping in the South Seas
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Kidnapping in the South Seas; Being a narrative of a three month’s cruise of H.M. Ship Rosario: by Captain George Palmer, xii + 233p, Edinburgh,
Edmonston & Douglas, 1871. (
The narrative describes the activities of a British ship under the command of the author while enforcing the Polynesian
Labour Act of 1868 during the British anti-blackbirder campaign in the last third of the 19th century. Captain Palmer’s efforts illuminate the great
difficulty the British authorities encountered in enforcing the anti-slavery intent of the act, and the machinations employed by the “labor traders” to
obfuscate their borderline activities. A recent valuable contribution to the voluminous literature on the Pacific island “slave trade” is Islanders;
The Pacific in the Age of Empire, by Nicholas Thomas, x+336p, New Haven, Yale U. Pr., 2010. The book was a joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History
Prize.)
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Title:
Kidnapping in the South Seas : being a narrative of a three months' cruise of H.M. ship Rosario / by Captain George Palmer, R.N. F.R.G.S.
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OCLC Number:
680421693
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Vol. 1 | | Yes | No |
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