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Product details
- ISBN 9780786443741
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 299g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2010
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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As Britain became a dominant sailing empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, her ships were manned in part by impressed men, forced to serve against their will. Naval officers oversaw a press gang that abducted both British and American citizens, particularly during times of war, and held them captive until they were sent to sea as unwilling sailors. This book provides personal accounts of 13 men, most of whom were impressed into the British Navy, but some onto pirate ships. A chapter on Dartmoor Prison is included, an institution which held thousands of impressed Americans during the War of 1812.
The late Jean Choate taught history at the College of Coastal Georgia and was the author of two previous books. She lived in Brunswick, Georgia.
