Author: Great Britain. Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council Appointed for the Consideration of All Matters Relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations
Author: Great Britain. Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Unnatural Trade
Author: Brycchan CareyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300224419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a "dread perversion" of nature? Focusing on slavery in the Americas, and the Caribbean in particular, alongside travelers' accounts of West Africa, Brycchan Carey shows that before the mid-eighteenth century, natural histories were a primary source of information about slavery for British and colonial readers. These natural histories were often ambivalent toward slavery, but they increasingly adopted a proslavery stance to accommodate the needs of planters by representing slavery as a "natural" phenomenon. From the mid-eighteenth century, abolitionists adapted the natural history form to their own writings, and many naturalists became associated with the antislavery movement. Carey draws on descriptions of slavery and the slave trade created by naturalists and other travelers with an interest in natural history, including Richard Ligon, Hans Sloane, Griffith Hughes, Samuel Martin, and James Grainger. These environmental writings were used by abolitionists such as Anthony Benezet, James Ramsay, Thomas Clarkson, and Olaudah Equiano to build a compelling case that slavery was unnatural, a case that was popularized by abolitionist poets such as Thomas Day, Edward Rushton, Hannah More, and William Cowper.
Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery
Author: Katie DoningtonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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.
Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Clarke's Bibliotheca legum; or, Complete catalogue of the common and statute law-books of the United Kingdom [ed. by T.H. Horne].
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Author: John Clarke (law-bookseller.)Publisher: London : Printed for W. Clarke
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne
Author: Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des livres imprimésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Old and New
Author: Edward Everett HalePublisher:
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Old and New
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Reports of the Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations; submitting ... the evidence and information they have collected in consequence of His Majesty's Order in Council, dated the 11th of February, 1788, concerning the present state of the Trade to Africa, and particularly the Trade in Slaves, etc
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Reports of the Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations; submitting ... the evidence and information they have collected in consequence of His Majesty's Order in Council, dated the 11th of February, 1788, concerning the present state of the Trade to Africa, and particularly the Trade in Slaves, etc
Author: Great Britain. Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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