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The forgotten slave trade : the white European slaves of Islam /Simon Webb. "Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade, which saw black Africans snatched from their homes, taken across the Atlantic Ocean and then sold into slavery. However, a century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa where they were sold to the highest bidder. This is the forgotten slave trade; one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world. Starting with the practice of slavery in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean. Castration, used very occasionally against black slaves taken across the Atlantic, was routinely carried out on an industrial scale on European boys who were exported to Africa and the Middle East. Most people are aware that the English city of Bristol was a major centre for the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, but hardly anyone knows that 1,000 years earlier it had been an important staging-post for the transfer of English slaves to Africa. Reading this book will forever change how you view the slave trade and show that many commonly held beliefs about this controversial subject are almost wholly inaccurate and mistaken."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362094

Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade /Maurie D. McInnis. McInnis, Maurie Dee 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(74)"18":7CROWE

The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589 / Toby Green. "Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity, and the reorganization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable, and the consequences in Africa and beyond"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"13/15"

The slave trade debate : contemporary writings for and against /introduction by John Pinfold. At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forward by each side. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)"17/18"

Great Britain and the slave trade 1839-1865 Mathieson, William Law, 1929 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(42)

Abolition of the slave trade : Royal Mail mint stamps : Royal Mail Group (Firm). 2007. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available.

The Indian slave trade : the rise of the English empire in the American south 1670-1717 Gallay, Alan 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(=97)

Slave trade profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean : suppression and resistance in the nineteenth century "This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean. By focusing on the transporters, buyers, sellers, and users of slaves in the region, the book traces the many links between slave trafficking and other types of trade. Drawing upon first-person slave accounts, travelogues, and archival sources, it documents the impact of abolition on Zanzibar politics, Indian merchants, East African coastal urban societies, and the entirety of maritime trade in the region. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work uncovers how western Indian Ocean societies experienced the slave trade suppression campaign as a political intervention, with important implications for Indian Ocean history and the history of the slave trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(267)

Slavery and the slave trade : a short illustrated history Walvin, James 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(100)

The forgotten trade : comprising the log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and accounts of the slave trade Tattersfield, Nigel 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Daniel and Henry

The Atlantic slave trade : volume III : the Eighteenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"17"

The Atlantic slave trade : volume IV : the Ninteenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"18"

The Atlantic slave trade : volume II : the Seventeenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"16"

If we must die : shipboard insurrections in the era of the Atlantic slave trade /Eric Robert Taylor. "If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determined the difference between success and failure. These uprisings, Taylor argues, ultimately helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also served as crucial predecessors to the many revolts that occurred subsequently on plantations throughout the Americas. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries."--Provided by the publisher. 2009, Ã2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 976

Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port Dresser, Madge 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(424.1)"1730/1745"

John Newton and the slave trade / Bernard Martin. Martin, Bernard 1961. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 362.1:92NEWTON

The rise and demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world / edited by Philip Misevich "Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by the transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first century as well as historical problems and debates, this book will appeal to specialists interested in cultural, economic, and political analysis of the slave trade as well as to nonspecialists seeking to understand anew how transatlantic slavery forever changed Europe, the Americas, and Africa." --Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

The Capture of the Estrella : a tale of the slave trade Harding, Claud 1893 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

The Journal of a slave trader (John Newton) 1750-1754 : with Newton's Thoughts upon the African slave Newton, John 1962 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /Srividhya Swaminathan. Swaminathan, Srividhya. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:808

The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law / Jenny S. Martinez. "There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights law, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Originating in England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. Here then, buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, are the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international courts targeting states and non-state transnational actors while working on behalf the world's most persecuted peoples--captured West Africans bound for the slave plantations of the Americas. Fueled by a powerful thesis and novel evidence, Martinez's work will reshape the fields of human rights history and international human rights law."-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1:341.231.14

Slave captain : the career of James Irving in the Liverpool slave trade /edited with an introduction 2008 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(427.2)"17"

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade : British policies, practices and representations of naval "The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain's campaign to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies and the history of medicine to analyse naval suppression in light of recent work on slavery and empire. Three sections reveal the policies, experiences and representations of slave-trade suppression from the perspectives of metropolitan Britons, liberated Africans, black sailors, colonialists and naval officers."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8/0941/09034

The Last years of the English slave trade : Liverpool 1750-1807 Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil 1941 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(427.2)

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