A slaver enslaved

When British slaver James Irving was shipwrecked and himself enslaved by Arabs, did he see the dark irony of his predicament? Not a bit of it, according to newly recovered journals, which provide a rare, self-justifying account of a slave trader.

It started with a shipwreck. It was swiftly followed by capture and then 14 months working as a slave. Such a traumatic experience might change the outlook of most people. But not James Irving.

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