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Slave trade profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean : suppression and resistance in the nineteenth century "This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean. By focusing on the transporters, buyers, sellers, and users of slaves in the region, the book traces the many links between slave trafficking and other types of trade. Drawing upon first-person slave accounts, travelogues, and archival sources, it documents the impact of abolition on Zanzibar politics, Indian merchants, East African coastal urban societies, and the entirety of maritime trade in the region. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work uncovers how western Indian Ocean societies experienced the slave trade suppression campaign as a political intervention, with important implications for Indian Ocean history and the history of the slave trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(267)

The French slave trade in the eighteenth century : an old regime business Stein, Robert Louis 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(44)"17"

Odious commerce : Britain, Spain and the abolition of the Cuban slave trade Murray, David R 1980 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(729.1)

John Newton and the slave trade / Bernard Martin. Martin, Bernard 1961. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 362.1:92NEWTON

If we must die : shipboard insurrections in the era of the Atlantic slave trade /Eric Robert Taylor. "If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determined the difference between success and failure. These uprisings, Taylor argues, ultimately helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also served as crucial predecessors to the many revolts that occurred subsequently on plantations throughout the Americas. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries."--Provided by the publisher. 2009, Ã2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 976

Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port Dresser, Madge 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(424.1)"1730/1745"

The Atlantic slave trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867 / Daniel B. Domingues da Silva. "The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780?1867, traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival sources from Angola, Brazil, England, and Portugal, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva explores not only the origins of the slaves forced into the trade but also the commodities for which they were exchanged and their methods of enslavement. Further, the book examines the evolution of the trade over time, its organization, the demographic profile of the population transported, the enslavers' motivations to participate in this activity, and the Africans' experience of enslavement and transportation across the Atlantic. Domingues da Silva also offers a detailed 'geography of enslavement', including information on the homelands of the enslaved Africans and their destination in the Americas."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(66)

The Journal of a slave trader (John Newton) 1750-1754 : with Newton's Thoughts upon the African slave Newton, John 1962 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

The Royal Navy and the slavers : the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade Ward, W E F 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.124.79:326

Slave captain : the career of James Irving in the Liverpool slave trade /edited with an introduction 2008 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(427.2)"17"

Sweet water and bitter : the ships that stopped the slave trade /Siãan Rees. Rees, Siãan, 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8"18"

Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade /Maurie D. McInnis. McInnis, Maurie Dee 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(74)"18":7CROWE

The Dutch press campaign against the negro slave trade and slavery / by C. de Jong. Jong, C de 1972. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8(492)

The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589 / Toby Green. "Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity, and the reorganization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable, and the consequences in Africa and beyond"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"13/15"

Black cargoes : a history of the Atlantic slave trade 1518-1865 Mannix, Daniel P 1963 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)

General Rigby, Zanzibar and the slave trade : with journals, dispatches, etc Rigby, Christopher Palmer 1935 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Abolition of the slave trade : Royal Mail mint stamps : Royal Mail Group (Firm). 2007. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available.

The great abolition sham : the true story of the end of the British slave trade /Michael Jordan. Jordan, Michael, 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8

The Indian slave trade : the rise of the English empire in the American south 1670-1717 Gallay, Alan 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(=97)

Britain's war against the slave trade : the operations of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, 1807 "Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain's somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa's west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain's decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy's ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. The slavers tried every tactic to evade the Royal Navy enforcers. Over the years that followed more than 1,500 naval personnel died of disease or were killed in action, in what was difficult and dangerous, and at times saddening, work. In Britain's War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known campaign by Britain to end the slave trade. Whereas Britain is usually, and justifiably, condemned for its earlier involvement in the slave trade, the truth is that in time the Royal Navy undertook a major and expensive operation to end what was, and is, an evil business."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362

The memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow : the life and times of a slave trade captain /[introduction by John "Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depicts himself as an enlightened practitioner of the trade, paying close attention to the welfare of his 'negroes', which he equates with financial success in his business. Crow's memoirs bring to life the everyday aspects of the slave trade and describe the harsh practicalities of life at sea, where on average a fifth of the crew did not survive the crossing. The narrative is peppered with social comment on the propriety of the slave trade and conditions in West Africa and the Caribbean. At the same time, Crow expresses a warm attachment towards individual slaves which was sometimes reciprocated, most remarkably in a song composed by the slaves about him which is reproduced in this book. The introduction chronicles Hugh Crow's life, his entry into the slave trade and his rise as one of the foremost slave captains of his day. Quoting extensively from original sources, it sets him in the context of the eighteenth-century mercantile community which fought hard to defend itself against the humanitarian campaign to abolish the slave trade. He emerges as a colourful if flawed figure from this highly practical, personal, and eye-opening look at the slave trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CROW

The African slave trade and its remedy / Buxton, Thomas Fowell. 1968. Buxton, Thomas Fowell 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Bristol, Africa and the eighteenth-century slave trade to America 1986 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.124.79:326

The slave trade : books and pamphlets on slavery and its abolition printed before 1900 in Canterbury Gathercole, Clare 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1:017.1(422.3)

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