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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
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)
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
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
The African
slave
trade
from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century : reports and papers of the meeting
Unesco
1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
96
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"
making of early American libraries : British literature, political thought, and the transatlantic book
trade
"Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce-the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery."--Provided by the publisher.
2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
070.5
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.
Hearing enslaved voices : African and Indian
slave
testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848
"This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives - including the inner and spiritual lives - of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons' lived experience as expressed in their own words."--Provided by publisher.
2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/62097
Slave
portraiture in the Atlantic world / edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal.
"Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888"--
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
75.041.5(261)
Atlas of slavery / James Walvin.
The history of slavery from ancient to modern times using an atlas format. Professor Walvin examines the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas "through a collection of maps and related text which puts the key features of the history of slavery in their defining geographical setting [...] and shows how the people of three widely separated continents were brought together into an economic and human system that was characterized by both violence and cruelty to its victims and huge economic advantage to its owners and managers."--Provided by the publisher.
2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(084.4)
Loanda; and report from British Vice-Admiralty Courts, and from British naval officers, relating to the
slave
Great Britain. Parliament
1861 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
326.1
Hearing enslaved voices : African and Indian
slave
testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848
"This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives - including the inner and spiritual lives - of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons' lived experience as expressed in their own words."--Provided by publisher.
2020. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
306.3/62097
Admiral W F W Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada; his fight against the African
slave
Burrows, Edmund H.
1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
528.47
A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica : the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794
Gamble, Samuel,
2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.123Sandown
The diligent
• • 1 copy available.
Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / edited by Derek R. Peterson.
2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8:327.2(42:6:261)
Slavery and the British empire : from Africa to America /Kenneth Morgan.
"Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/620941
foreign powers, so far as they relate to commerce and navigation, to the repression and abolition of the
slave
Hertslet, Lewis (comp)
1820-1827 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
094:341.24(42)
The occupation of Havana : war,
trade
, and slavery in the Atlantic world /Elena A. Schneider.
"In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America. The Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba's return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions."--Provided by publisher.
2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326(729.1)
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