Author: Robin LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The British transatlantic slave trade. 1. The operation of the slave trade in Africa
Author: Robin LawThe British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 1
Author: Kenneth MorganPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000561534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Author: Duchess HarrisPublisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1532173458
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The Transatlantic Slave Trade looks at the history of the global trade that took millions of Africans captive and shipped them across the Atlantic Ocean to work as slaves, and it explores the impact and legacy of that trade today. Features include a timeline, a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
The British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Author: John HawkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slave trade
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
After Abolition
Author: Marika SherwoodPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857710133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she describes how slavery remained very much a part of British investment, commerce and empire, especially in funding and supplying goods for the trade in slaves and in the use of slave-grown produce. The nancial world of the City in London also depended on slavery, which - directly and indirectly - provided employment for millions of people. "After Abolition" also examines some of the causes and repercussions of continued British involvement in slavery and describes many of the apparently respectable villains, as well as the heroes, connected with the trade - at all levels of society. It contains important revelations about a darker side of British history, previously unexplored, which will provoke real questions about Britain's perceptions of its past
The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
Author: Sir Thomas Fowell BuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Author: Robert BurroughsPublisher: Studies in Imperialism
ISBN: 9781526122889
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had previously done much to promote. The authors assembled here bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies of this nineteenth-century campaign. As the first academic study of Britain's efforts to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies and the history of medicine to re-examine naval suppression in light of recent work on slavery and empire. Three sections reveal the policies, experiences and representations of slave-trade suppression from the perspectives of metropolitan Britons, liberated Africans, black sailors, colonialists and naval officers. A collaborative endeavour, this new history of the slave trade offers striking conclusions about the importance of African personnel in sustaining the Royal Navy's operations, as well as a case study of liberated slaves' experiences of 'freedom,' critical readings of the public and private literature of suppression and an innovative analysis of the commemoration of the anti-slavery squadron during Britain's 2007 bicentennial of abolition. These social, political and cultural studies of naval suppression will inform our understanding of imperial history, the Atlantic world, slavery and abolition, whether introducing the campaign to new audiences or encouraging scholars to reconsider it afresh"--Page 4 of cover.
The British Transatlantic Slave Trade: The operation of the slave trade in Africa
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781851967568
Category : Slave trade
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
Author: Richard AndersonPublisher: Rochester Studies in African H
ISBN: 1580469698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"--
Slave Empire
Author: Padraic X. ScanlanPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472142322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.' The Economist The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.
