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Slavery and the British empire : from Africa to America /Kenneth Morgan.
"Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.."--Provided by the publisher.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/620941
foreign powers, so far as they relate to commerce and navigation, to the repression and abolition of the
slave
Hertslet, Lewis (comp)
1820-1827 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available.
094:341.24(42)
Slavery hinterland : transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680-1850 /edited by Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft.
''Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economics that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. Contributors from the US, Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects.''--Provided by the publisher.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/62094
and subsequent slavery, and interesting details of the manners of the Arabs of the desert, and of the
slave
"A ... first-hand account of an ill-fated French expedition to explore west Africa in the late 18th century. The explorers, Messieurs Saugnier and Bresson were shipwrecked off the coast of Senegal, only to be sold into Arabic slavery, where they languished for a long time before being rescued. During their incarceration the two men learned Arabic and made many ... observations of the then rulers of Africa that are set down here. Despite their grim experiences, the two men were keen to return to Africa and the book is therefore a prospectus for other bold explorers to follow in their footsteps; and the area they traversed did indeed become France?s African empire."--Publishers website.
1792 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(6)
Liverpool and transatlantic slavery / edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles.
An edited collection of essays published to coincide with the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.
2007. • BOOK • 2 copies available.
326.1
Abolition and its aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia / edited by Gwyn Campbell.
"Examines the various abolitionist impulses, indigenous and European, in the Indian Ocean world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy and European colonisation"--Preface.
2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(267)
A short history of slavery / James Walvin.
Published for the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, this title selects the historical texts that recreate the mindset which made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
Slavhandel och slaveri unde svensk flagg : Koloniala drèommar och verklighet i Afrika och Karibien 1770-1847 /Holger Weiss.
Weiss, Holger
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(485)
Discourses of slavery and abolition : Britain and its colonies, 1760-1838 /edited by Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, and Sara Salih.
2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326(41-44)"17/18"
Understanding global slavery : a reader /Kevin Bales.
Bales, Kevin.
2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
Cannibal cargoes
Holthouse, Hector
1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(93)
The Amistad rebellion : an Atlantic odyssey of slavery and freedom /Marcus Rediker.
"The dramatic story of a courageous rebellion against slavery On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless night, the captive Africans that comprised that cargo escaped from the hold, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the US navy and thrown into a Connecticut jail. Their legal battle for freedom eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where former president John Quincy Adams took up their cause. In a landmark ruling, they were freed and eventually returned to Africa. The rebellion became one of the best-known events in the history of American slavery, celebrated as a triumph of the US legal system in books and films, most famously Steven Spielberg?s Amistad. These narratives reflect the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved. In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its instigators: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence, Rediker reaches back to Africa to find the rebels? roots, narrates their cataclysmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a prison story of great drama and emotive power. Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the Africans, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, The Amistad Rebellion shows how the rebels captured the popular imagination and helped to inspire and build a movement that was part of a grand global struggle for emancipation. The actions of that distant July night and inthe days and months that followed were pivotal events in American and Atlantic history, but not for the reasons we have always thought. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of Africans steered a course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This stunning book honours their achievement."--Provided by the publisher.
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.133"1839"
Christian slaves, Muslim masters : white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary coast and Italy, 1500-1800
Davis, Robert C
2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(2)
Ouidah : the social history of a West African slaving port 1727-1892
Law, Robin
2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(668.2)"1727/1892"
Representing slavery : art, artefacts and archives in the collections of the National Maritime Museum /edited by Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth.
2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
326.1:7
Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh.
Ghosh, Amitav.
2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
820.3
Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history /Ian Baucom.
Baucom, Ian,
2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
Sacred hunger
Unsworth, Barry
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
Slavery and the birth of an African city : Lagos, 1760-1900 /Kristin Mann.
"As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the nineteenth century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator, Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities."--book jacket.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(42:669.199)
Abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill.
Everill, Bronwen,
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(664:666.2)
"A just and honourable commerce" : abolitionist experimentation in Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries /Suzanne Schwarz.
Schwarz, Suzanne.
2014. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
A shocking history of Bristol
Robinson, Derek
1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
914.241
The damn'd master
Plimmer, Charlotte
1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
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