By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean had become a busy highway of ships crisscrossing its waters.
What do we know about the ships that made these transatlantic voyages and connected the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world through trade, people, and information?
Phillip Reid), a historian of the Atlantic World and maritime technology and author of The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic), joins us to explore the eighteenth-century British merchant ship and the business of transatlantic shipping.
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