Park, Mungo

has biography | a une biographie: Scottish explorer in West Africa in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. During his two expeditions to the continent (1795-1797; 1805), Park actively used enslaved people to aid his explorations.

During his life, Park briefly worked as a ship surgeon. In 1793, Park worked onboard the East India Company ship 'Worcester' travelling to Bengkulu in Indonesia. In 1797, Park again worked as a ship surgeon, this time onboard a slave trade ship named 'Charleston' travelling from West Africa to Charleston, South Carolina [Voyage ID 25406, Slave Voyages database]. The voyage across the Middle Passage was disrupted and the ship was eventually forced to land in Antigua. A total of 129 enslaved people were held in captivity on board the ship and 11 died during the voyage.

As Secretary of the African Association, Bryan Edwards, a major slave-owner in Jamaica and pro-slavery politician, helped to edit and publish Park's narrative of his 1795-1797 expedition.
was born | est né: 11 September 1771
died in | est mort par: 1806
has nationality | a la nationalité: Scotland; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: Edwards, Bryan
is current or former member of: British East India Company

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; ODNB; National Portrait Gallery; Julia Morrison, 'Mungo Park: exploring his memorial', Historic Environment Scotland (2023); Slave Voyages database - search 'Voyage ID 25406'; Elizabeth Bohls, 'Romantic Exploration and Atlantic Slavery: Mungo Park's Coffle', Studies in Romanticism, 55, 3 (2016) 347-368; Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, ed. by Kate Ferguson Marsters (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000)

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