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Popular politics and British anti-slavery : the mobilisatition of public opinion against the slave trade "In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain."--Back cover. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)"17/18"
Survivors : the lost stories of the last captives of the Atlantic slave trade /Hannah Durkin. "This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 - more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the twentieth century. They were the last witnesses to the final act of a terrible and significant period in world history. In this epic work, Dr. Hannah Durkin tells the stories of the Clotilda's 110 captives, drawing on her intensive archival, historical, and sociological research. Survivors follows their lives from their kidnappings in what is modern-day Nigeria through a terrifying 45-day journey across the Middle Passage; from the subsequent sale of the ship's 103 surviving children and young people into slavery across Alabama to the dawn of the Civil Rights movement in Selma; from the foundation of an all-Black African Town (later Africatown) in Northern Mobile - an inspiration for writers of the Harlem Renaissance, including Zora Neale Hurston - to the foundation of the quilting community of Gee's Bend, a Black artistic circle whose cultural influence remains enormous. An astonishing, deeply compelling tapestry of history, biography and social commentary, Survivors is a tour de force that deepens our knowledge and understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and its far-reaching influence on life today."--Provided by the publisher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62/0976109034
In the blood of our brothers : abolitionism and the end of the slave trade in Spain's Atlantic empire "Throughout the nineteenth century, very few people in Spain campaigned to stop the slave trade and did even less to abolish slavery. Even when some supported abolition, the reasons that moved them were not always humanitarian, liberal, or egalitarian. How abolitionist ideas were received, shaped, and transformed during this period has been ripe for study. Jesâus Sanjurjo?s In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain?s Atlantic Empire, 1800?1870 provides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition. Sanjurjo privileges the central role that British activists and diplomats played in advancing the abolitionist cause in Spain. In so doing, he brings to attention the complex and uneven development of abolitionist and antiabolitionist discourses in Spain?s public life, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the transatlantic trade. His delineation of the ideological and political tension between Spanish liberalism and imperialism is crucial to formulating a fuller explanation of the reasons for the failure of anti?slave trade initiatives from 1811 to the 1860s. Slave trade was tied to the notion of inviolable property rights, and slavery persisted and peaked following three successful liberal revolutions in Spain."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209809034
The last slave market / Alastair Hazell. Hazell, Alastair. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(678)"18"
Shipwrecked : a true Civil War story of mutinies, jailbreaks, blockade-running, and the slave trade / "Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith?s case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era." 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.6092
Black voyage : eyewitness accounts of the Atlantic slave trade /Edited by Thomas Howard c1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
Reparations for slavery and the slave trade : a transnational and comparative history /Ana Lucia Araujo "This is the first book to offer a transnational narrative history of the financial, material, and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing from the voices of various social actors who identified themselves as the victims of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, Araujo illuminates the multiple dimensions of the demands of reparations, including the period of slavery, the emancipation era, the post-abolition period, and the present."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620973
The Suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 Du Bois, W E Burghardt 1954 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(73)
The slave coast of west Africa 1550 -1750 : the impact of the Atlantic trade on an African society. Law, Robin 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(6-15)"1550/1750"
A three years' cruize in the Mozambique Channel, for the suppression of the slave trade Barnard, Frederick Lamport 1848 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:326.4(678/691)
Wales and slavery : marking 200 years since the abolition of the Slave Trade Act. [2007?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8(429)
Liverpool and slavery : an historical account of the Liverpool-African slave trade: was it the cause Dicky Sam (pseud) 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.124.79:326
The Slave trade, domestic and foreign : why it exists, and how it may be extinguished Carey, H C 1853 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
Slave trades, 1500-1800 : globalization of forced labour 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1"15/18"
The Black Joke : the true story of one British ship's battle against the slave trade /A. E. Rooks. "Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria's England, the Black Joke was first used as a slaving vessel, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed itto be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the Black Joke liberated more enslaved people than any other in Britain's West Africa Squadron. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell ships such as the Black Joke as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. The Black Joke is a crucial and deeply compelling work of history, both as a reckoning with slavery and abolition and a lesson about the power of political will - or the lack thereof."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8094109034
Licentious and unbridled proceedings : the illegal slave trade to Mauritius and the Seychelles during Allen, Richard Blair. 2001. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.1(6-11:69)"18"
The slave ship : a human history /Marcus Rediker. Rediker, Marcus. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1"17/18"
Liverpool, the African slave trade, and abolition : essays to illustrate current knowledge and research 1976 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 04
Sir John Hawkins : Queen Elizabeth's slave trader Kelsey, Harry 2003 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92HAWKINS, JOHN
Dahomey and the ending of the trans-Atlantic slave trade : the journals and correspondence of Vice-Consul The British Vice-Consulate for the kingdom of Dahomey was established to suppress the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The documents collected here comprise principally of the journals of the Vice-Consul, Louis Fraser, which provide valuable insights into British policy on the slave trade. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 362.1(668.2)
The British slave trade : abolition, parliament and people : including the illustrated catalogue of the c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8
A voyage to the River Sierra-Leone ... with an additional letter on the African slave trade Matthews, John 1966 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(66)
The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, c. 1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and Wills, Mary. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
Untold histories : Black people in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade, c. A study of black people living in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade (1660-1807) and their experiences. This is based on research carried out for the author's doctoral thesis. The evidence is obtained from sources including parish records, newspaper reports and trial proceedings. The author firstly examines the black population in England and Wales and particularly London, in terms of its size and composition. Further chapters consider freedom and enslavement, treatment by the criminal justice system, settlement and the poor laws and the extent to which black people assimilated or integrated into wider British society. The author looks at naming conventions used, evidence of marriage and family life as well as work. The text is supported by a detailed bibliography and notes. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92(42)(=013)"16/18"