Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316583813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the era of the Younger Pitt. During this period Britain's trade became 'Americanised' and industrialisation began to occur in the domestic economy. The slave trade and the broader patterns of Atlantic commerce contributed important dimensions of British economic growth although they were more significant for their indirect, qualitative contribution than for direct quantitative gains. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.
Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660–1800
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316583813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the era of the Younger Pitt. During this period Britain's trade became 'Americanised' and industrialisation began to occur in the domestic economy. The slave trade and the broader patterns of Atlantic commerce contributed important dimensions of British economic growth although they were more significant for their indirect, qualitative contribution than for direct quantitative gains. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316583813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the era of the Younger Pitt. During this period Britain's trade became 'Americanised' and industrialisation began to occur in the domestic economy. The slave trade and the broader patterns of Atlantic commerce contributed important dimensions of British economic growth although they were more significant for their indirect, qualitative contribution than for direct quantitative gains. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.
The Capital and the Colonies
Author: Nuala Zahedieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book describes how the mercantile system was made to work as London established itself as the capital of the Atlantic empire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book describes how the mercantile system was made to work as London established itself as the capital of the Atlantic empire.
Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development during the beginning of British industrialization. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521588140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development during the beginning of British industrialization. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.
Black Ivory
Author: James Walvin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631229605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The terrible 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.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631229605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The terrible 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.
Slavery in America
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327921
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of time--from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War. The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America. Each of the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses the leading secondary books and articles on the topic in question, followed by an essay and three primary documents. Questions for further study and discussion are included in the chapter introduction, while further readings are suggested in the chapter bibliography. Topics covered include slave culture, the slave-based economy, slavery and the law, slave resistance, pro-slavery ideology, abolition, and emancipation. The essays, by such eminent historians as Drew Gilpin Faust, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, and Sylvia R. Frey, have been selected for their teaching value and ability to provoke discussion. Drawing on black and white, male and female experiences, the primary documents come from a wide variety of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travelers’ accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions, and novels.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327921
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of time--from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War. The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America. Each of the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses the leading secondary books and articles on the topic in question, followed by an essay and three primary documents. Questions for further study and discussion are included in the chapter introduction, while further readings are suggested in the chapter bibliography. Topics covered include slave culture, the slave-based economy, slavery and the law, slave resistance, pro-slavery ideology, abolition, and emancipation. The essays, by such eminent historians as Drew Gilpin Faust, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, and Sylvia R. Frey, have been selected for their teaching value and ability to provoke discussion. Drawing on black and white, male and female experiences, the primary documents come from a wide variety of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travelers’ accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions, and novels.
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
Author: Justin Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025850
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025850
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Author: H. V. Bowen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702014X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702014X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521330173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Dr Morgan compares the performance of Bristol as a port with the growth of other out ports.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521330173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Dr Morgan compares the performance of Bristol as a port with the growth of other out ports.
The Price of Emancipation
Author: Nicholas Draper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521115254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid £20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave Compensation, which represent a complete census of slave-ownership, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society. Moving away from the historiographical tradition of isolated case studies, it reveals the extent of slave-ownership among metropolitan elites, and identifies concentrations of both rentier and mercantile slave-holders, tracing their influence in local and national politics, in business and in institutions such as the Church. In analysing this permeation of British society by slave-owners and their success in securing compensation from the state, the book challenges conventional narratives of abolitionist Britain and provides a fresh perspective of British society and politics on the eve of the Victorian era.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521115254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid £20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave Compensation, which represent a complete census of slave-ownership, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the extent and importance of absentee slave-ownership and its impact on British society. Moving away from the historiographical tradition of isolated case studies, it reveals the extent of slave-ownership among metropolitan elites, and identifies concentrations of both rentier and mercantile slave-holders, tracing their influence in local and national politics, in business and in institutions such as the Church. In analysing this permeation of British society by slave-owners and their success in securing compensation from the state, the book challenges conventional narratives of abolitionist Britain and provides a fresh perspective of British society and politics on the eve of the Victorian era.
Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America
Author: Kenneth Morgan
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814756706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labor systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout, overriding themes emerge: the labor market in North America for indentured servants, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labor, and resistance to bondage.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814756706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labor systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout, overriding themes emerge: the labor market in North America for indentured servants, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labor, and resistance to bondage.