Denver Brunsman: 1 book
The Evil Necessity
British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century.
In The Evil...
