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Royal Navy versus the slave traders : enforcing abolition at sea, 1808-1898 /Bernard Edwards. An account of the involvement of the Royal Navy's African Squadron in enforcing the abolition of the slave trade. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8

Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 /Jane "An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807 - a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the Transatlantic slave trade, but because so few examples of wrecked slaving vessels have been located at sea, it is rarely studied by archaeologists. Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping,1680-1807 argues that there are other ways for archaeologists to materialize the slave ship. It employs a pioneering interdisciplinary methodology combining primary documentary sources, maritime and terrestrial archaeology, paintings, maritime and ethnographic museum collections, and many other sources to 'rebuild' British slaving vessels and to identify changes to them over time. The book then goes on to consider the reception of the slave ship and its trade goods in coastal West Africa, and details the range, and uses, of the many African resources (including ivory, gold, and live animals) entering Britain on returning slave ships. The third section of the book focuses on the Middle Passage experiences of both captives and crews and argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the coping mechanisms through which Africans survived, yet also challenged, their captive passage. Finally, Jane Webster asks why the African Middle Passage experience remains so elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it. She considers when, how, and why the crossing was remembered by 'saltwater' captives in the Caribbean and North America. The marriage of words and things attempted in this richly illustrated book is underpinned throughout by a theoretical perspective combining creolization and postcolonial theory, and by a central focus on the materiality of the slave ship and its regimes."--Provided by publisher. [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

Robert Hibbert 1772-1780 : detailing a merchant family's involvement in defence and of the colonial slave "The Jamaican Diaries of Robert Hibbert 1772-1780 is a deeply personal work that has evolved over the last 15 years. It is intended to foster a greater understanding of a very difficult time in history, in which the enslaved and the enslavers inhabit different, disturbing interlocking narratives, now distorted by time and politics. At its core is the dark stain of an empire and many fortunes built upon the enslavement of the unfortunate. It contains much thorough research into people, places, events and sources that developed as the author followed the twists and turns of a family history often frustratingly opaque and sometimes sensationally public. The book is part genealogy and part social history: a previously unpublished diary of a major figure in the West Indian slave trade, with contemporary sources and biographical notes on those that strutted the Atlantic world of the late eighteenth century. It lays down a chronology to allow a picture of the day-to-day happenings in Jamaica to emerge. This work exposes the deep, raw wounds that have resonated through the centuries, creating a need for a deeper study into many facets of British Atlantic history from a different perspective ? one in which the narrative of the enslaved and the enslavers can be read together in both the geopolitical context of the times and the legal, ethical, humanitarian and religious belief systems of those times on both sides of the Atlantic. In order to consider how the slave trade was run, financed, organised and evolved, the author provides a detailed examination of the Jamaican economy of the time, and offers a better and more balanced understanding of the slave trade?s establishment, adoption, adaption, abolition and, lastly, its legacy, in all its hydra-like forms. The second volume of this work will cover the years when the Diaries resume, 1787 to 1802. The Robert Hibbert diaries and the family involvement with Jamaica extend past the abolition (1834) and emancipation (1838) of slaves to the middle of the nineteenth century."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt

Redemption of a slave ship : the story of the brig the James Matthews /Graeme Henderson. "The illegal slave trade in the 18th century told through the life of a ship called the James Matthews. The Slaver was originally built in France and used as an illegal slave transport from Africa to the West Indies; later in life it was used as a civilian transport to Western Australia where it sank in Fremantle harbour."--Provided by publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1"18/19"

and on the eastern coast of Africa : narrative of five years' experiences in the suppression of the slave Sulivan, G L 1873 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(42:656)

The History of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the Clarkson, Thomas 1808 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:326.8(42)

That most precious merchandise : the Mediterranean trade in Black Sea slaves, 1260-1500 /Hannah Barker "The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Aegean Sea. Yet the trade in Black Sea slaves provided merchants with profit and prestige; states with military recruits, tax revenue, and diplomatic influence; and households with the service of women, men, and children. Even though Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Greater Syria were the three most important strands in the web of the Black Sea slave trade, they have rarely been studied together. Examining Latin and Arabic sources in tandem, Hannah Barker shows that Christian and Muslim inhabitants of the Mediterranean shared a set of assumptions and practices that amounted to a common culture of slavery. Indeed, the Genoese, Venetian, and Mamluk slave trades were thoroughly entangled, with wide-ranging effects. Genoese and Venetian disruption of the Mamluk trade led to reprisals against Italian merchants living in Mamluk cities, while their participation in the trade led to scathing criticism by supporters of the crusade movement who demanded commercial powers use their leverage to weaken the force of Islam. Reading notarial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209822

claim to a right of visitation and search of American vessels suspected to be engaged in the American slave-trade Wheaton, Henry 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

The temptations of trade : Britain, Spain, and the struggle for empire /Adrian Finucane. "The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, opening up a world of uneasy collaboration. British agents of the Company moved to cities in the Caribbean and West Indies, where they braved the unforgiving tropical climate and hostile religious environment in order to trade slaves, manufactured goods, and contraband with Spanish colonists. In the process, British merchants developed relationships with the Spanish--both professional and, at times, personal. The Temptations of Trade traces the development of these complicated relationships in the context of the centuries-long imperial rivalry between Spain and Britain. Many British Merchants, in developing personal ties to the Spanish, were able to collect potentially damaging information about Spanish imperial trade, military defenses, and internal conflict. British agents juggled personal friendships with national affiliation--and, at the same time, developed a network of illicit trade, contraband, and piracy extending beyond the legal reach of the British South Sea Company and often at the Company's direct expense. Ultimately, the very smuggling through which these empires unwittingly supported each other led to the resumption of Anglo-Spanish conflict, as both empires cracked down on the actions of traders within the colonies. The Temptations of Trade reveals the difficulties of colonizing regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.0941

Slavery, Atlantic trade and the British economy 1660-1800 Morgan, Kenneth 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(261)"1660/1800"

The western slave coast and its rulers : European trade and administration among the Yoruba and Adja-speaking Newbury, C W 1961 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

and on the eastern coast of Africa : narrative of five years' experiences in the suppression of the slave Sulivan, G L 1967 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(42:656)

the captains and commanding officers of Her Majesty's ships of war employed in the suppression of the slave Great Britain.-Admiralty 1892 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 326.4(42):355.51

Letters on West Africa and the slave trade : Paul Erdmann Isert's journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Isert, Paul Erdmann 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 5

A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution /Toby Green "By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had fuelled the economies of Europe and Islamic world since around 1000, and its sophisticated kingdoms had traded with Europeans along the coasts from Senegal down to Angola since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies - most importantly shells: the cowrie shells imported from the Maldives, and the nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. Toby Green's groundbreaking new book transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa. It reconstructs the world of kingdoms whose existence (like those of Europe) revolved around warfare, taxation, trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, royal display and extravagance, and the production of art. Over time, the relationship between Africa and Europe revolved ever more around the trade in slaves, damaging Africa's relative political and economic power as the terms of monetary exchange shifted drastically in Europe's favour. In spite of these growing capital imbalances, longstanding contacts ensured remarkable connections between the Age of Revolution in Europe and America and the birth of a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa. A Fistful of Shells draws not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, on art, praise-singers, oral history, archaeology, letters, and the author's personal experience to create a new perspective on the history of one of the world's most important regions."--Provided by the publisher 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 966

the captains and commanding officers of Her Majesty's ships of war employed in the suppression of the slave Great Britain.-Admiralty 1882 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(42:66):355.51

History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the Liverpool slave trade Williams, Gomer 1897 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 326.1(427.1)

The African slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century : reports and papers of the meeting Unesco 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 96

Migration, trade, and slavery in an expanding world : essays in honor of Pieter Emmer /edited by Wim 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325+326.1

Travel, trade and power in the Atlantic, 1765-1884 : Camden miscellany volume XXXV Wood, Betty (ed.) 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(261)"1765/1884"

containing particular descriptions of the climate and inhabitants and interesting particulars concerning the slave Hawkins, Joseph 1970 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(6)"17"

of Africa in His Majesty's ship Dryad, and of the service on that station for the suppression of the slave Leonard, Peter 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82Dryad

Commerce and economic change in West Africa : the palm oil trade in the nineteenth century /Martin Lynn Martin Lynn's study investigates the transition period of West African history when the trading system moved from slave-based trade to so-called 'legitimate' trade. Palm oil trade was especially important, having grown out of the slave trade. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 380(6-15)"18"

Ismailia : a narrative of the expedition to central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade ; organized Baker, Samuel White,-Sir, 2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available.

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