Extraordinary Emigrants


The Irishman determined to expose the slave trade

Extraordinary Emigrant: James Field Stanfield saw a ‘floating dungeon’ filled with ‘howlings of despair’ as part of a crew charged with taking more than 200 Africans to Jamaica. He quit






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