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Envoys of abolition : British naval officers and the campaign against the slave trade in West Africa ''After Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppressing the thriving transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on previously unpublished papers found in private collections and various archives in the UK and abroad, this book examines the personal and cultural experiences of the naval officers at the frontline of Britain's anti-slavery campaign in West Africa. It explores their unique roles in this 60-year operation: at sea, boarding slave ships bound for the Americas and 'liberating' captive Africans; on shore, as Britain resolved to 'improve' West African societies; and in the metropolitan debates around slavery and abolitionism in Britain. Their personal narratives are revealing of everyday concerns of health, rewards and strategy, to more profound questions of national honour, cultural encounters, responsibility for the lives of others in the most distressing of circumstances, and the true meaning of 'freedom' for formerly enslaved African peoples. British anti-slavery efforts and imperial agendas were tightly bound in the nineteenth century, inseparable from ideas of national identity. This is a book about individuals tasked with extraordinary service, military men who also worked as guardians, negotiators, and envoys of abolition.''--Povided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 381.44094109034

Commercial agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa / edited by Robin Law, Suzanne "Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 338.43:326.1(66)

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"

Wales and slavery : marking 200 years since the abolition of the Slave Trade Act. [2007?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8(429)

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

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

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"

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 trans-Atlantic slave trade : a database on CD-ROM /edited by David Eltis, Stephen D. 1999. • CD-ROM • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)

Liverpool, the African slave trade, and abolition : essays to illustrate current knowledge and research 1976 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 04

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

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)

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 last slave market / Alastair Hazell. Hazell, Alastair. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(678)"18"

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"

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.

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)

Why was the slave trade so important to Bristol in the first half of the eighteenth century? Banks, Louise • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 914.241

Traffic repugnant to humanity : children, the Mascarene slave trade and British Abolitionism /Richard Allen, Richard Blair. 2006. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8(42:5)"17/18"

Slave trades, 1500-1800 : globalization of forced labour 1996 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1"15/18"

The slave ship : a human history /Marcus Rediker. Rediker, Marcus. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1"17/18"

Abson & Company : slave traders in eighteenth-century West Africa /Stanley B. Alpern. "Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767, took over the English fort in 1770, and remained in charge until his death in 1803. He avoided the 'white man's grave' for thirty-six years. Along the way he had three sons with an African woman, the eldest partly schooled in England, and a bright daughter named Sally. When Abson died, royal lackeys kidnapped his children. Sally was placed in the king's harem and pined away; her brothers vanished. That king became so unpopular as a result that the people of Dahomey disowned him. Abson also mastered the local language and became an historian. After only two years as fort chief, he was part of the king's delegation to make peace with an enemy, a unique event in centuries of Dahomean history. This singular book recounts the remarkable life of this key figure in an ignominious period of European and African history, offering a microcosm of the lives of Europeans in eighteenth-century West Africa, and their relationships with and attitudes towards those they met there."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92ABSON

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