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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

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"

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)

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

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

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

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

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"

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)

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

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"

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

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)

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)

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.

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

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

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)

Slaver captain / by John Newton, ed. with an introduction by Vincent McInerney. This title comprises two accounts written by John Newton (1725-1807): Thoughts on the African Slave Trade: A memoir of my infidel days as a slaving captain, published in 1788, and An Authentic Narrative of some remarkable particulars in the life of John Newton, published in 1764. Newton worked on the slave ships Brownlow (as mate) and the Duke of Argyle and African (as captain), sailing out of Liverpool, before retiring from the slave trade on the grounds of ill-health. He went on to become an adviser to William Wilberforce and an active campaigner in the abolition movement. Thoughts on the African Slave Trade was written some thirty years after his retirement from the slave trade as a contribution to the arguments for abolition of the slave trade as well as a public confession and it contains explicit descriptions of the conditions on slave ships and the brutality of the treatment meted out to enslaved people. Converting to Christianity, Newton was ordained into the Church of England ministry and is known for having written Amazing Grace. The Authentic Narrative consists of a series of letters written by Newton to support his entry into the Anglican ministry. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92NEWTON, JOHN

Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada, his fight against the African slave trade, Burrows, Edmund H. 1979. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92OWEN

A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica : the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 Gamble, Samuel, 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Sandown

The Humphrey Morice papers from the Bank of England, London : a listing and guide to the microfilm collection. Morice, Humphry, 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

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