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The British slave trade : abolition, parliament and people : including the illustrated catalogue of the c2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8

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"

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

The trader, the owner, the slave : parallel lives in the age of slavery /James Walvin. Provides a new view and fresh interpretation of the world of slavery by focusing on the lives of the trader, John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', the owner, Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786) and the slave, Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797). 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

: narrative of two voyages to the river Sierra Leone during the years 1791/1793 : an account of the slave Falconbridge, Anna Maria 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(664)

Africa remembered : narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade /edited by Philip D. c1967. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Slave ship sailors and their captive cargoes. 1730-1807 / Emma Christopher. Christopher, Emma. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(42)"1730/1807"

The constant demand of the French : the Mascarene slave trade and the worlds of the Indian Ocean and Allen, Richard Blair. 2008. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.1(44:69)"17/18"

Slaver : the story of the Navy's part in the suppression of the African slave trade in the nineteenth Sumption, Liam 1991? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8

The Physician and the slave trade : John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions and the crusade against slavery Liebowitz, Daniel 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8

Slave-catching in the Indian Ocean : a record of naval experiences Colomb, P. H.-(Philip Howard), 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(267)

European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 / Richard B. Allen. "Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global phenomenon. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean also led to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the consequences of which resonated well into the twentieth century. Richard B. Allen's magisterial work dramatically expands our understanding of the movement of free and forced labor around the world. Drawing upon extensive archival research and a thorough command of published scholarship, Allen challenges the modern tendency to view the Indian and Atlantic oceans as self-contained units of historical analysis and the attendant failure to understand the ways in which the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds have interacted with one another. In so doing, he offers tantalizing new insights into the origins and dynamics of global labor migration in the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326

Rum, slaves and molasses : the story of New England's triangular trade Alderman, Clifford Lindsey 1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

A letter to the Members of Parliament who have presented petitions ... for the abolition of the slave West-India Merchant 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094 <EXTI Philosophical Tracts:529.78

Slave empire : how slavery made modern Britain /Padraic X. Scanlan. "The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362094109033

History of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British Clarkson, Thomas 1839 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:326.8(42)

The last slave ships : New York and the end of the middle passage /John Harris. "Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make Lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around two hundred thousand African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the U.S. government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867." 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.7/103

Distant freedom : St Helena and the abolition of the slave trade, 1840-1872 /Andrew Pearson. "This book is an examination of the island of St Helena's involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a British Vice-Admiralty court there in 1840, this tiny and remote South Atlantic colony became the hub of naval activity in the region. It served as a base for the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, and as such became the principal receiving depot for intercepted slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 'recaptive' or 'liberated' Africans were landed at the island. Here, in embryonic refugee camps, these former slaves lived and died, genuine freedom still a distant prospect. This book provides an account and evaluation of this episode. It begins by charting the political contexts which drew St Helena into the fray of abolition, and considers how its involvement, at times, came to occupy those at the highest levels of British politics. In the main, however, it focuses on St Helena itself, and examines how matters played out on the ground. The study utilises documentary sources (many previously untouched) which tell the stories of those whose lives became bound up in the compass of anti-slavery, far from London and long after the Abolition Act of 1807. It puts the Black experience at the foreground, aiming to bring a voice to a forgotten people, many of whom died in limbo, in a place that was physically and conceptually between freedom and slavery."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209973

from the committee on commerce of the house of representatives of the United States on the African slave Kennedy, J P 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:325.3(73:666.2)

battle against slavery : the untold story of how a group of Yorkshire radicals began the war to end the slave "On 13 December 1776, the Rev. William Turner preached the first avowedly anti-slavery sermon in the North of England. Copies of his sermon were distributed far and wide - in so doing, he had fired the first shot in the battle to end slavery. Four years later, Rev. Turner, members of his congregation and the Rev Christopher Wyvill founded 'The Yorkshire Association' to agitate for political and social reform. The Association sought universal suffrage, annual parliaments and the abolition of slavery. In the West Riding, despite furious opposition, by 1783 nearly 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the aims of the Association. Slavery, or rather its abolition, was now on the political agenda. The Battle Against Slavery charts the story of a group of West Riding radicals in their bid to abolish slavery both in the United Kingdom and aboard. Such became the influence of this group, whose Unitarian beliefs were illegal in Britain, that the general election of 1806 in Yorkshire was fought on an abolitionist platform. At a time when the rest of the world engaged in slavery, this small body was fighting almost single-handedly to end such practices. Gradually, their beliefs began to spread across the country and across the Channel to France, the principles of which found resonance during the French Revolution and even across the Atlantic to America. At a time, today, when the history of slavery is the subject of considerable debate worldwide, this revealing insight into the abolitionist movement, which demonstrates how ordinary men and women battled against governments and the establishment, needs to be told. The Battle Against Slavery adds an important dimension to the continuing debate over Britain's, and other nations', involvement in the slave trade and demonstrates how the determination of just a few right-minded people can change world opinion forever."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route /Saidiya Hartman. "The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In 'Lose Your Mother', Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way, and with figures from the past, vividly dramatising the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and American history."--Provided by the publiser. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209667

King Guezo of Dahomey, 1850-52 : the abolition of the slave trade on the west coast of Africa. Coates, Tim (ed) 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(66)"1850/1852"

Freedom : a history and citizenship KS3 resource to investigate the transatlantic slave trade /National National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) ca1995] • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 326-057.87

The Dutch in the Atlantic economy 1580-1880 : trade, slaver and emancipation /Pieter Emmer. Emmer, P.C. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 330(261:492)"1580/1880"

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