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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"

Atlantic cataclysm : rethinking the Atlantic slave trades /David Eltis, Emory University and University "In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a 2,000-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, Eltis offers compelling explanations of why the slave trades began and why they ended, and in the process debunks long-held assumptions, including how bilateral rather than triangular voyages were the norm, and how the Portuguese rather than the British were the leading slave traders. Eltis argues that two-thirds of all enslaved people ended up in the Iberian Americas, where exports were most valuable throughout the slave trade era, and not in the Caribbean or the United States. Tracing the mass involvement of people in the slave trade business from all parts of the Atlantic world, Eltis also examines the agency of Africans and their experiences in the aftermath of liberation." -- 2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62091821

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.

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)

Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 /Jane "An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807 - a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the Transatlantic slave trade, but because so few examples of wrecked slaving vessels have been located at sea, it is rarely studied by archaeologists. Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping,1680-1807 argues that there are other ways for archaeologists to materialize the slave ship. It employs a pioneering interdisciplinary methodology combining primary documentary sources, maritime and terrestrial archaeology, paintings, maritime and ethnographic museum collections, and many other sources to 'rebuild' British slaving vessels and to identify changes to them over time. The book then goes on to consider the reception of the slave ship and its trade goods in coastal West Africa, and details the range, and uses, of the many African resources (including ivory, gold, and live animals) entering Britain on returning slave ships. The third section of the book focuses on the Middle Passage experiences of both captives and crews and argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the coping mechanisms through which Africans survived, yet also challenged, their captive passage. Finally, Jane Webster asks why the African Middle Passage experience remains so elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it. She considers when, how, and why the crossing was remembered by 'saltwater' captives in the Caribbean and North America. The marriage of words and things attempted in this richly illustrated book is underpinned throughout by a theoretical perspective combining creolization and postcolonial theory, and by a central focus on the materiality of the slave ship and its regimes."--Provided by publisher. [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

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

The temptations of trade : Britain, Spain, and the struggle for empire /Adrian Finucane. "The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, opening up a world of uneasy collaboration. British agents of the Company moved to cities in the Caribbean and West Indies, where they braved the unforgiving tropical climate and hostile religious environment in order to trade slaves, manufactured goods, and contraband with Spanish colonists. In the process, British merchants developed relationships with the Spanish--both professional and, at times, personal. The Temptations of Trade traces the development of these complicated relationships in the context of the centuries-long imperial rivalry between Spain and Britain. Many British Merchants, in developing personal ties to the Spanish, were able to collect potentially damaging information about Spanish imperial trade, military defenses, and internal conflict. British agents juggled personal friendships with national affiliation--and, at the same time, developed a network of illicit trade, contraband, and piracy extending beyond the legal reach of the British South Sea Company and often at the Company's direct expense. Ultimately, the very smuggling through which these empires unwittingly supported each other led to the resumption of Anglo-Spanish conflict, as both empires cracked down on the actions of traders within the colonies. The Temptations of Trade reveals the difficulties of colonizing regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382.0941

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"

Slavery, Atlantic trade and the British economy 1660-1800 Morgan, Kenneth 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(261)"1660/1800"

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

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)

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 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

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

Searching for my slave roots : from Guyana's sugar plantations to Cambridge /Malik Al Nasir with Carinya "Malik Al Nasir was born in Liverpool, a mixed race kid formerly known as Mark Watson ? he changed his name when he converted to Islam in early adulthood. Bemused by memories of racist chants baying for him to 'go back to where you came from' ? he came from Liverpool after all ? he began to look in detail into his ancestry. This book is the result and charts the twists and turns of his journey into the past, exploring an untold chapter in both Black and British history. As Malik investigates his roots, he uncovers a forgotten history of the trade in enslaved Africans and the role of Scottish, Dutch and English merchants known as Sandbach Tinne & Co. Largely set in between Liverpool, Glasgow and Demerara and Berbice, Searching for my Slave Roots is a quest for identity, through the genealogy of Malik's family and of the barbaric transportation and abuse of humans, all to feed our insatiable desire for the sweet stuff. In Guyana, he discovers ancestors that had been both enslaved people and prominent slaveholders. He finds himself part of a complex lineage linking slaveholdings to high sheriffs, mayors, a British prime minister and bankers, whose companies and social enterprises formed major modern day institutions, some of whom have yet to acknowledge their connections to the slave trade. Announced by the University of Cambridge as the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Global Impact Award for his research, Searching for my Slave Roots unravels not just the legacies of enslavement but also plantation economics and the wealth of a slaveholding dynasty that he himself is descended from through the exploitation of those they enslaved. A major theme of this vital history is the nuanced ways that trauma is passed down through generations of the enslaved, and how wealth and privilege play out across generations of slaveholders and their descendants." 2025. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.36209

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

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)

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

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 African slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century : reports and papers of the meeting Unesco 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 96

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

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

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