Set a Thief to Catch a Thief: Story of a Baltimore Schooner/Slaver AUTH-3019225 award-winning work spans four decades

award-winning work spans four decades

ISBN13: 9780865717091

and three brave kids

he divides his time between Cambridge

Set a Thief to Catch a Thief: Story of a Baltimore Schooner/Slaver AUTH-3019225 award-winning work spans four decadesThe names Black Joke and Fair Rosamond are well known to historians, artists and ship modelers interested in the British Navy's campaign against the slave trade. These were a brig and a schooner built in Baltimore, MD in the 1820s, employed in the slave trade (as Henriquetta and Dos Amigos respectively), captured by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron and conscripted into the Navy as slave chasers. By telling the story of the Fair Rosamond as a sort