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Ireland slavery and anti-slavery : 1612-1865 /by Nini Rodgers.
Rodges, Nini.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(417)"16/18"
West African slavery and Atlantic commerce : the Senegal River valley 1700-1860 /James F. Searing
Searing, James F.
1993. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(663)"1700-1860"
Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery : local nuances of a 'national sin' /edited by Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody.
"Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain."--Provided by the publisher.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3620941
The many-headed hydra : sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic
Linebaugh, Peter
2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
626.61.071.22(261.1)
The Royal African Company / by K. G. Davies.
Davies, K. G.-(Kenneth Gordon)
1975. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(6)
Slaves and slavery : the British colonial experience
Walvin, James
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa /Paul E. Lovejoy.
"This history of slavery in Africa from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Professor Lovejoy examines the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the process of enslavement and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history."--Back cover.
2000 [reprinted 2006] • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(6)"15/19"
Reconfiguring slavery : West African trajectories /edited by Benedetta Rossi.
2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(6-15)
Prospectus of the Society
Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilisation of Africa
1840 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.4
Slavery at sea : Terror, sex, and sickness in the Middle Passage /Sowande' M. Mustakeem.
"Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--infamously known as the Middle Passage--comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the making--and unmaking--of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. Mustakeem offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the world's most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries."--Provided by the publisher.
2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(261/264)
Adventures of an African slaver : being a true account of the life of Captain Theodore Canot, trader in gold, ivory & slaves on the coast of Guinea : his own story as told in the year 1854 /to Brantz Mayer now edited with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley.
Canot, Theodore
1928. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
Freedom burning : anti-slavery and empire in Victorian Britain /Richard Huzzey.
Huzzey, Richard,
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(42)"18"
Tarnished gold : Ghana and the Netherlands from 1593 /Gijs van der Ham.
"Gijs van der Ham's book Tarnished Gold tells the story of the Dutch presence in Ghana with reference to a fascinating series of artefacts, maps, drawings, engravings and paintings, most of them part of the Rijksmuseum collection in Amsterdam. This painful and yet fascinating story is one of inhumanity and curiosity, competition and exploitation, power and subjugation, the encounter between two very different cultures, and human lives that were dramatically and irrevocably changed - above all, and most tragically, by the slave trade. Gijs van der Ham (b. 1955) is senior curator of history at the Rijksmuseum. In 2013 he published The history of the Netherlands in 100 objects, a book likewise based on the Rijksmuseum collection. Tarnished Gold is part of the Country Series published by the Rijksmuseum's History Department. By researching objects from the Rijksmuseum Collection, the series describes the shared history of the Netherlands with Indonesia, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Ghana, Suriname and Brazil."--Provided by the publisher.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(492:667)
The northern Gabon coast to 1875
Patterson, K David
1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
American slavers and the Federal law, 1837-1862 / by Warren S. Howard
Howard, Warren S
1963 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
629.124.79(73):326
The Routledge history of slavery / edited by Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard.
2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326
Black ivory : slavery in the British Empire /James Walvin
"The brutal story of African slavery in the British colonies of the West Indies and North America is told with clarity and compassion in this classic history. James Walvin explores the experiences which bound together slaves from diverse African backgrounds and explains how slavery transformed the tastes and economy of the western world. [...] All aspects of African slavery up to 1776 are covered: the situation of women, flight and rebellion, disease and death, the conditions on the slave ships, the abolition campaign and much more. The narrative is enlivened and personalised by frequent reference to individual lives. For this revised edition, the author has incorporated recent scholarly findings and updated the notes and bibliography in order to keep the book current."--Provided by the publisher.
2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1:941.44
Africans and the industrial revolution in England
"Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological development, this book shows the critical role of expanding Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of England's industrialization process over the period 1650-1850. The contribution of Africans, the central focus of the book, is measured in terms of the role of diasporic Africans in large-scale commodity production in the Americas - of which expanding Atlantic commerce was a function - at a time when demographic and other socio-economic conditions in the Atlantic basin encouraged small-scale production by independent populations, largely for subsistence. This is the first detailed study of the role of overseas trade in the Industrial Revolution. It revises inward-looking explanations that have dominated the field in recent decades and shifts the assessment of African contribution away from debate on profits." --Provided by the publisher.
2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
382(261):942.06/.081(=96)
The Journal of Legal History.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(42)(063)
The empire of necessity : slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World /Greg Grandin.
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans who appeared to be slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception--that the men and women he thought were slaves were actually running the ship--he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, historian Greg Grandin explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event--an event that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece "Benito Cereno". Now historian Greg Grandin, with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.--Provided by the publisher.
2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
In the image of God: religion, moral values and our heritage of slavery.
Davis, David Brion
2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326
Observations on a Guinea voyage in a series of letters addressed to the Rev. Thomas Clarkson
Stanfield, James Field
1788 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(041):094
Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition / edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight.
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(267)
Murder on the middle passage : the trial of Captain Kimber /Nicholas Rogers.
"On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain and Ireland and was even reported in America. Soon after, Kimber was indicted for murder - but in a trial lasting just under five hours, he was found not guilty. This book is a micro-history of this important trial, reconstructing it from accounts of what was said in court and setting it in the context of pro- and anti-slavery movements. Rogers considers contemporary questions of culpability, the use and abuse of evidence, and why Kimber was criminally indicted for murder at a time when kidnapped Africans were generally regarded as 'cargo'. Importantly, the book also looks at the role of sailors in the abolition debate: both in bringing the horrors of the slave trade to public notice and as straw-men for slavery advocates, who excused the treatment of enslaved people by comparing it to punishments meted out to sailors and soldiers. The final chapter discusses the ways this incident has been used by African-American writers interested in recreating the trauma of the Middle Passage and addresses the question of whether the slave-trade archive can adequately recover the experience of being enslaved."--Provided by the publisher.
2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
KD372.K56
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