جزییات کتاب
Nous abordons avec cette monographie, ltude dun bâtiment marchand sur un sujet vritablement indit puisque lAURORE se livre aux fameux voyages triangulaires.Partant de France, le navire se rend sur la côte dAngola, pour y traiter 600 noirs, les transportant à St Domingue. Achets comme esclaves, ils seront vendus mais surtout changs contre des denres coloniales, presque exclusivement du sucre puis, avec ce nouveau chargement, le navire reviendra en France.Cet ouvrage est prsent de la même manière que les prcdents volumes. Un texte historique, dont lillustration est indite, permet ltude du navire ngrier. Le rcit dune campagne dans les annes 1784-85 fournit de prcises et concrètes informations sur les oprations de traite, le voyage, lexistence à bord.La deuxième partie du texte comprend les commentaires pour chacune des planches, la nomenclature du grement et les photos dun modèle ralis sur les plans de la monographie.47 planches ont t ncessaires pour donner tous les dessins indispensables à lexcution de la charpente et de tous les emmnagements propres au navire ngrier.Ce navire se nomme lAurore, sa monographie a t tablie à partir de pièces darchives et le srieux de louvrage sapprciera notamment avec la prsentation critique des sources.Que les modlistes deviennent archologues et historiens de cette marine dautrefois, cest lobjet dune collection sadressant galement aux amateurs et rudits, avec, le souci de proposer ce qui nexiste pas ailleurs. With this monograph we begin our study of a hitherto unpublished topic concerning a merchant ship, since the AURORE was involved in the infamous triangle voyages.After leaving France, the ship sailed to coast of Angola where she traded in six hundred Negroes, and then transported them to St Domingue.Brought as slaves, they were sold but above all exchanged for goods from the colonies, almost exclusively for sugar. The ship would then return to France with its new cargo.This work is presented in the same fashion as the preceding volumes. An historical text with previously unpublished illustrations allows us to study the slaver. The account of an expedition during the years 1784-85 has furnished specific and concrete information on the activities in trading, the voyage itself, and life aboard ship. The second part of the text includes commentaries on each of the plates, a glossary of rigging and photographs of a model of the Aurore built from the plans in the monograph.Forty-seven plates were needed in order to present all drawings necessary for building the timber work and all the accommodations that were necessary on a slave ship. The monograph of the ship called lAurore was done on the basis of archival documents and its seriousness is especially worthy of note in the critical presentation of its sources.With this collection we hope that model builders will become archaeologists and historians of yesteryears navy. This is the goal of our publications that address themselves both to enthusiasts and scholars, offering here what cannot be found elsewhere.