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Rum, slaves and molasses : the story of New England's triangular
trade
Alderman, Clifford Lindsey
1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
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
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)
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
Slave
-catching in the Indian Ocean : a record of naval experiences
Colomb, P. H.-(Philip Howard),
1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(267)
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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.
Slavery, Atlantic
trade
and the British economy 1660-1800
Morgan, Kenneth
2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
382(261)"1660/1800"
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
1967 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.4(42:656)
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
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
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
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