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The Atlantic slave trade : volume III : the Eighteenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"17"

The Atlantic slave trade : volume IV : the Ninteenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"18"

The Atlantic slave trade : volume II : the Seventeenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"16"

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)

2007 bicentenary for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act : programme /National Maritime Museum. Programme of events and exhibitions marking the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. 2007. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8:069(26:421.6)

The business of abolishing the British slave trade 1783-1807 This book examines the lives, writings and activities of four Quaker businessmen who were founders of organized slavery abolitionism in Great Britain: Joseph Woods, Samuel Hoare, George Harrison and James Phillips. All four men were founding members of the London Abolition Committee in 1787, helping to transform abolitionism into a national political movement. The author also considers the possible link between abolitionism and the values emerging from the growth of the market economy and the developing consumer society in late 18th-century Britain. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)

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)

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

The rise and demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world / edited by Philip Misevich "Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by the transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first century as well as historical problems and debates, this book will appeal to specialists interested in cultural, economic, and political analysis of the slave trade as well as to nonspecialists seeking to understand anew how transatlantic slavery forever changed Europe, the Americas, and Africa." --Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

The Capture of the Estrella : a tale of the slave trade Harding, Claud 1893 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /Srividhya Swaminathan. Swaminathan, Srividhya. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:808

The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law / Jenny S. Martinez. "There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights law, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Originating in England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. Here then, buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, are the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international courts targeting states and non-state transnational actors while working on behalf the world's most persecuted peoples--captured West Africans bound for the slave plantations of the Americas. Fueled by a powerful thesis and novel evidence, Martinez's work will reshape the fields of human rights history and international human rights law."-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1:341.231.14

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade : British policies, practices and representations of naval "The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain's campaign to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies and the history of medicine to analyse naval suppression in light of recent work on slavery and empire. Three sections reveal the policies, experiences and representations of slave-trade suppression from the perspectives of metropolitan Britons, liberated Africans, black sailors, colonialists and naval officers."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8/0941/09034

The Last years of the English slave trade : Liverpool 1750-1807 Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil 1941 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(427.2)

Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis and David Richardson ; foreword by David Brion Davis Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World.-publisher description. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 326.1(084.4)

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)

The Atlantic slave trade : effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Atlantic Slave Trade : Who Gained and Who Lost? (1988 : Rochester) 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.3

Opposing the slavers : the Royal Navy's campaign against the Atlantic slave trade /Peter Grindal. "Much is known about Britain s role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little known yet important part of the British, European and American history. Drawing on original sources to provide a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the naval operations against slavers of all nations in particular Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil, he describes how illegal traders sought to evade treaty obligations, reveals the obduracy of the USA that prolonged the slave trade, and shows how, despite inadequate resources, the Royal navy s sixty year campaign forced slavers to expend ever greater sums top conduct their business and confront the losses inflicted by capture and condemnation. A work that will transform our understanding of the Royal Navy s campaign against the Atlantic slave trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(42)

The shameful trade Kay, F George 1976 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Slavery, diplomacy & empire : Britain & the suppression of the slave trade, 1807-1975 /edited by Keith 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)

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)

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

In the blood of our brothers : abolitionism and the end of the slave trade in Spain's Atlantic empire "Throughout the nineteenth century, very few people in Spain campaigned to stop the slave trade and did even less to abolish slavery. Even when some supported abolition, the reasons that moved them were not always humanitarian, liberal, or egalitarian. How abolitionist ideas were received, shaped, and transformed during this period has been ripe for study. Jesâus Sanjurjo?s In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain?s Atlantic Empire, 1800?1870 provides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition. Sanjurjo privileges the central role that British activists and diplomats played in advancing the abolitionist cause in Spain. In so doing, he brings to attention the complex and uneven development of abolitionist and antiabolitionist discourses in Spain?s public life, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the transatlantic trade. His delineation of the ideological and political tension between Spanish liberalism and imperialism is crucial to formulating a fuller explanation of the reasons for the failure of anti?slave trade initiatives from 1811 to the 1860s. Slave trade was tied to the notion of inviolable property rights, and slavery persisted and peaked following three successful liberal revolutions in Spain."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209809034

Popular politics and British anti-slavery : the mobilisatition of public opinion against the slave trade "In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain."--Back cover. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)"17/18"

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