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The Capture of the Estrella : a tale of the slave trade Harding, Claud 1893 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
The Dutch press campaign against the negro slave trade and slavery / by C. de Jong. Jong, C de 1972. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8(492)
The rise and demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world / edited by Philip Misevich "Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by the transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first century as well as historical problems and debates, this book will appeal to specialists interested in cultural, economic, and political analysis of the slave trade as well as to nonspecialists seeking to understand anew how transatlantic slavery forever changed Europe, the Americas, and Africa." --Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
The Last years of the English slave trade : Liverpool 1750-1807 Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil 1941 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(427.2)
Black cargoes : a history of the Atlantic slave trade 1518-1865 Mannix, Daniel P 1963 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(261)
General Rigby, Zanzibar and the slave trade : with journals, dispatches, etc Rigby, Christopher Palmer 1935 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade : British policies, practices and representations of naval "The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain's campaign 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 analyse 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."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8/0941/09034
Opposing the slavers : the Royal Navy's campaign against the Atlantic slave trade /Peter Grindal. "Much is known about Britain s role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little known yet important part of the British, European and American history. Drawing on original sources to provide a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the naval operations against slavers of all nations in particular Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil, he describes how illegal traders sought to evade treaty obligations, reveals the obduracy of the USA that prolonged the slave trade, and shows how, despite inadequate resources, the Royal navy s sixty year campaign forced slavers to expend ever greater sums top conduct their business and confront the losses inflicted by capture and condemnation. A work that will transform our understanding of the Royal Navy s campaign against the Atlantic slave trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4(42)
Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis and David Richardson ; foreword by David Brion Davis Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World.-publisher description. 2010. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 326.1(084.4)
The shameful trade Kay, F George 1976 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
The Atlantic slave trade : effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Atlantic Slave Trade : Who Gained and Who Lost? (1988 : Rochester) 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.3
The great abolition sham : the true story of the end of the British slave trade /Michael Jordan. Jordan, Michael, 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8
Britain's war against the slave trade : the operations of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, 1807 "Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain's somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa's west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain's decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy's ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. The slavers tried every tactic to evade the Royal Navy enforcers. Over the years that followed more than 1,500 naval personnel died of disease or were killed in action, in what was difficult and dangerous, and at times saddening, work. In Britain's War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known campaign by Britain to end the slave trade. Whereas Britain is usually, and justifiably, condemned for its earlier involvement in the slave trade, the truth is that in time the Royal Navy undertook a major and expensive operation to end what was, and is, an evil business."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362
The African slave trade and its remedy / Buxton, Thomas Fowell. 1968. Buxton, Thomas Fowell 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1
Bristol, Africa and the eighteenth-century slave trade to America 1986 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.124.79:326
The memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow : the life and times of a slave trade captain /[introduction by John "Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depicts himself as an enlightened practitioner of the trade, paying close attention to the welfare of his 'negroes', which he equates with financial success in his business. Crow's memoirs bring to life the everyday aspects of the slave trade and describe the harsh practicalities of life at sea, where on average a fifth of the crew did not survive the crossing. The narrative is peppered with social comment on the propriety of the slave trade and conditions in West Africa and the Caribbean. At the same time, Crow expresses a warm attachment towards individual slaves which was sometimes reciprocated, most remarkably in a song composed by the slaves about him which is reproduced in this book. The introduction chronicles Hugh Crow's life, his entry into the slave trade and his rise as one of the foremost slave captains of his day. Quoting extensively from original sources, it sets him in the context of the eighteenth-century mercantile community which fought hard to defend itself against the humanitarian campaign to abolish the slave trade. He emerges as a colourful if flawed figure from this highly practical, personal, and eye-opening look at the slave trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92CROW
The slave trade : books and pamphlets on slavery and its abolition printed before 1900 in Canterbury Gathercole, Clare 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1:017.1(422.3)
Slavery, diplomacy & empire : Britain & the suppression of the slave trade, 1807-1975 /edited by Keith 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)
2007 bicentenary for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act : programme /National Maritime Museum. Programme of events and exhibitions marking the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. 2007. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8:069(26:421.6)
The business of abolishing the British slave trade 1783-1807 This book examines the lives, writings and activities of four Quaker businessmen who were founders of organized slavery abolitionism in Great Britain: Joseph Woods, Samuel Hoare, George Harrison and James Phillips. All four men were founding members of the London Abolition Committee in 1787, helping to transform abolitionism into a national political movement. The author also considers the possible link between abolitionism and the values emerging from the growth of the market economy and the developing consumer society in late 18th-century Britain. 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)
Commercial agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa / edited by Robin Law, Suzanne "Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period."--Provided by the publisher. 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 338.43:326.1(66)
Envoys of abolition : British naval officers and the campaign against the slave trade in West Africa ''After Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppressing the thriving transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on previously unpublished papers found in private collections and various archives in the UK and abroad, this book examines the personal and cultural experiences of the naval officers at the frontline of Britain's anti-slavery campaign in West Africa. It explores their unique roles in this 60-year operation: at sea, boarding slave ships bound for the Americas and 'liberating' captive Africans; on shore, as Britain resolved to 'improve' West African societies; and in the metropolitan debates around slavery and abolitionism in Britain. Their personal narratives are revealing of everyday concerns of health, rewards and strategy, to more profound questions of national honour, cultural encounters, responsibility for the lives of others in the most distressing of circumstances, and the true meaning of 'freedom' for formerly enslaved African peoples. British anti-slavery efforts and imperial agendas were tightly bound in the nineteenth century, inseparable from ideas of national identity. This is a book about individuals tasked with extraordinary service, military men who also worked as guardians, negotiators, and envoys of abolition.''--Povided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 381.44094109034
Survivors : the lost stories of the last captives of the Atlantic slave trade /Hannah Durkin. "This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. The Clotilda docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 - more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the twentieth century. They were the last witnesses to the final act of a terrible and significant period in world history. In this epic work, Dr. Hannah Durkin tells the stories of the Clotilda's 110 captives, drawing on her intensive archival, historical, and sociological research. Survivors follows their lives from their kidnappings in what is modern-day Nigeria through a terrifying 45-day journey across the Middle Passage; from the subsequent sale of the ship's 103 surviving children and young people into slavery across Alabama to the dawn of the Civil Rights movement in Selma; from the foundation of an all-Black African Town (later Africatown) in Northern Mobile - an inspiration for writers of the Harlem Renaissance, including Zora Neale Hurston - to the foundation of the quilting community of Gee's Bend, a Black artistic circle whose cultural influence remains enormous. An astonishing, deeply compelling tapestry of history, biography and social commentary, Survivors is a tour de force that deepens our knowledge and understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and its far-reaching influence on life today."--Provided by the publisher. 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62/0976109034
Popular politics and British anti-slavery : the mobilisatition of public opinion against the slave trade "In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain."--Back cover. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)"17/18"