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The Atlantic slave trade and black Africa / Hair, P E H. 1989. Hair, P. E. H.-(Paul Edward Hedley) 1989 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(66)

The slave trade debate : contemporary writings for and against /introduction by John Pinfold. At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forward by each side. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)"17/18"

The Atlantic slave trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867 / Daniel B. Domingues da Silva. "The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780?1867, traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival sources from Angola, Brazil, England, and Portugal, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva explores not only the origins of the slaves forced into the trade but also the commodities for which they were exchanged and their methods of enslavement. Further, the book examines the evolution of the trade over time, its organization, the demographic profile of the population transported, the enslavers' motivations to participate in this activity, and the Africans' experience of enslavement and transportation across the Atlantic. Domingues da Silva also offers a detailed 'geography of enslavement', including information on the homelands of the enslaved Africans and their destination in the Americas."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(66)

Great Britain and the slave trade 1839-1865 Mathieson, William Law, 1929 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(42)

The Royal Navy and the slavers : the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade Ward, W E F 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.124.79:326

Slaves waiting for sale : abolitionist art and the American slave trade /Maurie D. McInnis. McInnis, Maurie Dee 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(74)"18":7CROWE

The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589 / Toby Green. "Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity, and the reorganization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable, and the consequences in Africa and beyond"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"13/15"

Slavery and the slave trade : a short illustrated history Walvin, James 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(100)

Slave trade profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean : suppression and resistance in the nineteenth century "This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean. By focusing on the transporters, buyers, sellers, and users of slaves in the region, the book traces the many links between slave trafficking and other types of trade. Drawing upon first-person slave accounts, travelogues, and archival sources, it documents the impact of abolition on Zanzibar politics, Indian merchants, East African coastal urban societies, and the entirety of maritime trade in the region. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work uncovers how western Indian Ocean societies experienced the slave trade suppression campaign as a political intervention, with important implications for Indian Ocean history and the history of the slave trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(267)

John Newton and the slave trade / Bernard Martin. Martin, Bernard 1961. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 362.1:92NEWTON

Abolition of the slave trade : Royal Mail mint stamps : Royal Mail Group (Firm). 2007. • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available.

Captivity's collections : science, natural history, and the British transatlantic slave trade /Kathleen "Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica--in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade. Plants, seeds, preserved animals and insects, and other specimens were gathered by British slave ship surgeons, mariners, and traders at slaving factories in West Africa, in ports where captive Africans disembarked, and near the British South Sea Company's trading factories in Spanish America. The specimens were displayed in British museums and herbaria, depicted in published natural histories, and discussed in the halls of scientific societies. Grounded in extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Captivity's Collections mines scientific treatises, slaving companies' records, naturalists' correspondence, and museum catalogs to recover in rich detail the scope of the slave trade's collecting operations. The book reveals the scientific and natural historical profit derived from these activities and the crucial role of specimens gathered along the routes of the slave trade on emerging ideas in natural history"-- [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 508.0941

If we must die : shipboard insurrections in the era of the Atlantic slave trade /Eric Robert Taylor. "If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned themselves to freedom. In recounting these rebellions, Taylor suggests that certain factors like geographic location, the involvement of women and children, and the timing of a shipboard revolt, determined the difference between success and failure. These uprisings, Taylor argues, ultimately helped limit and end the traffic in enslaved Africans and also served as crucial predecessors to the many revolts that occurred subsequently on plantations throughout the Americas. If We Must Die expands the historical view of slave resistance, revealing a continuum of rebellions that spanned the Atlantic as well as the centuries."--Provided by the publisher. 2009, Ã2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 976

Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port Dresser, Madge 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(424.1)"1730/1745"

The Journal of a slave trader (John Newton) 1750-1754 : with Newton's Thoughts upon the African slave Newton, John 1962 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

The Indian slave trade : the rise of the English empire in the American south 1670-1717 Gallay, Alan 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(=97)

Slave captain : the career of James Irving in the Liverpool slave trade /edited with an introduction 2008 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(427.2)"17"

The Atlantic slave trade : volume III : the Eighteenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"17"

The Atlantic slave trade : volume IV : the Ninteenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"18"

The Atlantic slave trade : volume II : the Seventeenth Century /edited by Jeremy Black. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)"16"

The forgotten trade : comprising the log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and accounts of the slave trade Tattersfield, Nigel 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Daniel and Henry

Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 /Srividhya Swaminathan. Swaminathan, Srividhya. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:808

The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law / Jenny S. Martinez. "There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights law, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Originating in England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. Here then, buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, are the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international courts targeting states and non-state transnational actors while working on behalf the world's most persecuted peoples--captured West Africans bound for the slave plantations of the Americas. Fueled by a powerful thesis and novel evidence, Martinez's work will reshape the fields of human rights history and international human rights law."-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1:341.231.14

Sweet water and bitter : the ships that stopped the slave trade /Siãan Rees. Rees, Siãan, 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8"18"

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