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Thread #4162   Message #60902
Posted By: Bruce O.
01-Mar-99 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: slave revolts
Subject: RE: slave revolts
There is a ballad incongruously titled 'Liverpool Town' in Holloway and Black's 'Later English Broadside Ballads', II #66, 1979, where a slave ship is taken by the slaves in the 3rd verse, but the the story isn't coherent. The ballad then has the ship go to Africa to get slaves where the crew get into another fight with slaves. The slaves "Blew up our powder and all our men" in the 7th verse, then in the 8th verse the crew? (slaves seems unlikely) are bound to Jamaica.