A Bitter Draught

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Foreword by Associate Professor Dan Yon of York University, Toronto. Pre-publication commendations from a number of senior academics:A Bitter Draught reveals the chilling history of slavery on St. Helena in the period before the island became a temporary destination for Liberated Africans during the British campaign to end the slave trade in the south Atlantic after 1840. Meticulously researched it is essential reading for those interested in the complexities of the Black Atlantic. Paul E. Lovejoy FRSC, Distinguished Research Professor, Editor, The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, Africa World Press, Co-Editor, African Economic History; I have now had the opportunity to look at your fine book, focusing especially on the early years of the slave story, the period where my own interests lie. The book is thorough, a really good account of a complex, rather sad story, written in an engaging and accessible manner. Stephen A. Royle, MRIA, Emeritus Professor of Island Geography, Queen's University Belfast; The history of slavery, and of its abolition, in the South Atlantic world has been greatly enriched by Fox's masterly account of what happened in the St. Helena case. Christopher Saunders, Professor Emeritus, University of Cape Town; A welcome contribution to the history of St. Helena and our understanding of the East India Company's involvement with slavery and abolition during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Professor Richard B. Allen, Framingham State University, author of European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850.