Virtual Author Series featuring Christian McBurney

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The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history.

Christian McBurney speaks on his new book, Dark Voyage:  An American Privateer’s War Against the British Slave Trade in Africa (Westholme, 2022). The book is fascinating microhistory of an American privateer that sails to the coast of Africa and attacks a British slave trading post and British slave ships. It is also a vehicle to learn about the British slave trade, which dominated the worldwide slave trade at the time of the War of Independence. The book further details for the first time other American privateers capturing numerous British slave ships just before they reached their destinations in the Caribbean, with the consequence of seriously disrupting and virtually halting the British slave trade.

This is Christian McBurney’s fifth book on the American Revolutionary War. He is President of The George Washington American Revolution Round Table of the District of Columbia and is the founder and publisher of Rhode Island’s leading history blog at smallstatebighistory.com. He is an independent historian residing in Kensington, Maryland.

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