{"product_id":"2940013232297","title":"Black Ivory","description":"Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade\u003cbr\u003eit is not our heroes who are doing it.  At the very first chapter there\u003cbr\u003eis a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking\u003cbr\u003eship, and a seaman friend of his, alone on the east coast of Africa,\u003cbr\u003ewhere Arab and Portuguese slave traders were still carrying out their\u003cbr\u003eevil trade, despite the great efforts of patrolling British warships to\u003cbr\u003elimit it and free the unfortunates whom they found being carried away in\u003cbr\u003ethe Arab dhows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur heroes encountered a slave trader almost at the very spot where they\u003cbr\u003ecome ashore, and thereby managed to get to Zanzibar in a British warship\u003cbr\u003ethat had captured the trader's dhow in which our friends had hitched a\u003cbr\u003elift.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt Zanzibar they pick up some funds, and set forth on a journey into the\u003cbr\u003einterior.  Here again they encounter the vile trade, but most of the\u003cbr\u003estory deals with other encounters of a more acceptable nature.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145557328112,"sku":"2940013232297","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013232297_p0.jpg?v=1763578501","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013232297","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}