Black Ivory

Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense, Classics, Historical
Cover of the book Black Ivory by Robert Michael Ballantyne, CLASSIC COLLECTION 600
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Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne ISBN: 1230002640259
Publisher: CLASSIC COLLECTION 600 Publication: October 8, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
ISBN: 1230002640259
Publisher: CLASSIC COLLECTION 600
Publication: October 8, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***

Synopsis:

Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking ship, and a seaman friend of his, alone on the east coast of Africa, where Arab and Portuguese slave traders were still carrying out their evil trade, despite the great efforts of patrolling British warships to limit it and free the unfortunates whom they found being carried away in the Arab dhows.

Our heroes encountered a slave trader almost at the very spot where they come ashore, and thereby managed to get to Zanzibar in a British warship that had captured the trader's dhow in which our friends had hitched a lift.

At Zanzibar they pick up some funds, and set forth on a journey into the interior. Here again they encounter the vile trade, but most of the story deals with other encounters of a more acceptable nature.

This book will open your eyes to what really went on. At the time of writing slave-dealing on the west coast of Africa was, due to the efforts of the British, almost extinct, but this was not the case on the east coast.

FIND AND ENJOY!

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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***

Synopsis:

Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking ship, and a seaman friend of his, alone on the east coast of Africa, where Arab and Portuguese slave traders were still carrying out their evil trade, despite the great efforts of patrolling British warships to limit it and free the unfortunates whom they found being carried away in the Arab dhows.

Our heroes encountered a slave trader almost at the very spot where they come ashore, and thereby managed to get to Zanzibar in a British warship that had captured the trader's dhow in which our friends had hitched a lift.

At Zanzibar they pick up some funds, and set forth on a journey into the interior. Here again they encounter the vile trade, but most of the story deals with other encounters of a more acceptable nature.

This book will open your eyes to what really went on. At the time of writing slave-dealing on the west coast of Africa was, due to the efforts of the British, almost extinct, but this was not the case on the east coast.

FIND AND ENJOY!

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