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The R. M. Ballantyne Library · October 11 · 28 min

Black Ivory Chapter 3

In which Captain Romer and his officers dine with the amiable yet complacent Governor Letotti, whose polished exterior conceals the harsh realities of slavery, while the cunning slave-trader Yoosoof plots and captures Englishmen to aid his illicit commerce. The narrative then follows the grim voyage of the slave dhow, the desperate condition of its human cargo, and the eventual intervention of the British man-of-war, revealing the vast and brutal scale of the East African slave-trade.

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In which Captain Romer and his officers dine with the amiable yet complacent Governor Letotti, whose polished exterior conceals the harsh realities of slavery, while the cunning slave-trader Yoosoof plots and captures Englishmen to aid his illicit commerce. The narrative then follows the grim voyage of the slave dhow, the desperate condition of its human cargo, and the eventual intervention of the British man-of-war, revealing the vast and brutal scale of the East African slave-trade.