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Abson & Company : slave traders in eighteenth-century West Africa /Stanley B. Alpern. "Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767, took over the English fort in 1770, and remained in charge until his death in 1803. He avoided the 'white man's grave' for thirty-six years. Along the way he had three sons with an African woman, the eldest partly schooled in England, and a bright daughter named Sally. When Abson died, royal lackeys kidnapped his children. Sally was placed in the king's harem and pined away; her brothers vanished. That king became so unpopular as a result that the people of Dahomey disowned him. Abson also mastered the local language and became an historian. After only two years as fort chief, he was part of the king's delegation to make peace with an enemy, a unique event in centuries of Dahomean history. This singular book recounts the remarkable life of this key figure in an ignominious period of European and African history, offering a microcosm of the lives of Europeans in eighteenth-century West Africa, and their relationships with and attitudes towards those they met there."--Provided by the publisher. 2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92ABSON

Africa remembered : narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade /edited by Philip D. c1967. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

: narrative of two voyages to the river Sierra Leone during the years 1791/1793 : an account of the slave Falconbridge, Anna Maria 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(664)

Slaver : the story of the Navy's part in the suppression of the African slave trade in the nineteenth Sumption, Liam 1991? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.8

The Physician and the slave trade : John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions and the crusade against slavery Liebowitz, Daniel 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8

The trader, the owner, the slave : parallel lives in the age of slavery /James Walvin. Provides a new view and fresh interpretation of the world of slavery by focusing on the lives of the trader, John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', the owner, Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786) and the slave, Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797). 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

A letter to the Members of Parliament who have presented petitions ... for the abolition of the slave West-India Merchant 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094 <EXTI Philosophical Tracts:529.78

European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 / Richard B. Allen. "Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global phenomenon. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean also led to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the consequences of which resonated well into the twentieth century. Richard B. Allen's magisterial work dramatically expands our understanding of the movement of free and forced labor around the world. Drawing upon extensive archival research and a thorough command of published scholarship, Allen challenges the modern tendency to view the Indian and Atlantic oceans as self-contained units of historical analysis and the attendant failure to understand the ways in which the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds have interacted with one another. In so doing, he offers tantalizing new insights into the origins and dynamics of global labor migration in the modern world."--Provided by the publisher. 2014 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326

The constant demand of the French : the Mascarene slave trade and the worlds of the Indian Ocean and Allen, Richard Blair. 2008. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 326.1(44:69)"17/18"

Slave-catching in the Indian Ocean : a record of naval experiences Colomb, P. H.-(Philip Howard), 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(267)

Slave ship sailors and their captive cargoes. 1730-1807 / Emma Christopher. Christopher, Emma. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(42)"1730/1807"

Rum, slaves and molasses : the story of New England's triangular trade Alderman, Clifford Lindsey 1974 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Slave empire : how slavery made modern Britain /Padraic X. Scanlan. "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."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.362094109033

History of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British Clarkson, Thomas 1839 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:326.8(42)

battle against slavery : the untold story of how a group of Yorkshire radicals began the war to end the slave "On 13 December 1776, the Rev. William Turner preached the first avowedly anti-slavery sermon in the North of England. Copies of his sermon were distributed far and wide - in so doing, he had fired the first shot in the battle to end slavery. Four years later, Rev. Turner, members of his congregation and the Rev Christopher Wyvill founded 'The Yorkshire Association' to agitate for political and social reform. The Association sought universal suffrage, annual parliaments and the abolition of slavery. In the West Riding, despite furious opposition, by 1783 nearly 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the aims of the Association. Slavery, or rather its abolition, was now on the political agenda. The Battle Against Slavery charts the story of a group of West Riding radicals in their bid to abolish slavery both in the United Kingdom and aboard. Such became the influence of this group, whose Unitarian beliefs were illegal in Britain, that the general election of 1806 in Yorkshire was fought on an abolitionist platform. At a time when the rest of the world engaged in slavery, this small body was fighting almost single-handedly to end such practices. Gradually, their beliefs began to spread across the country and across the Channel to France, the principles of which found resonance during the French Revolution and even across the Atlantic to America. At a time, today, when the history of slavery is the subject of considerable debate worldwide, this revealing insight into the abolitionist movement, which demonstrates how ordinary men and women battled against governments and the establishment, needs to be told. The Battle Against Slavery adds an important dimension to the continuing debate over Britain's, and other nations', involvement in the slave trade and demonstrates how the determination of just a few right-minded people can change world opinion forever."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

from the committee on commerce of the house of representatives of the United States on the African slave Kennedy, J P 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:325.3(73:666.2)

King Guezo of Dahomey, 1850-52 : the abolition of the slave trade on the west coast of Africa. Coates, Tim (ed) 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(66)"1850/1852"

Freedom : a history and citizenship KS3 resource to investigate the transatlantic slave trade /National National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) ca1995] • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 326-057.87

The Dutch in the Atlantic economy 1580-1880 : trade, slaver and emancipation /Pieter Emmer. Emmer, P.C. 1998. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 330(261:492)"1580/1880"

Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 /Jane "An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807 - a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the Transatlantic slave trade, but because so few examples of wrecked slaving vessels have been located at sea, it is rarely studied by archaeologists. Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping,1680-1807 argues that there are other ways for archaeologists to materialize the slave ship. It employs a pioneering interdisciplinary methodology combining primary documentary sources, maritime and terrestrial archaeology, paintings, maritime and ethnographic museum collections, and many other sources to 'rebuild' British slaving vessels and to identify changes to them over time. The book then goes on to consider the reception of the slave ship and its trade goods in coastal West Africa, and details the range, and uses, of the many African resources (including ivory, gold, and live animals) entering Britain on returning slave ships. The third section of the book focuses on the Middle Passage experiences of both captives and crews and argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the coping mechanisms through which Africans survived, yet also challenged, their captive passage. Finally, Jane Webster asks why the African Middle Passage experience remains so elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it. She considers when, how, and why the crossing was remembered by 'saltwater' captives in the Caribbean and North America. The marriage of words and things attempted in this richly illustrated book is underpinned throughout by a theoretical perspective combining creolization and postcolonial theory, and by a central focus on the materiality of the slave ship and its regimes."--Provided by publisher. [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

Royal Navy versus the slave traders : enforcing abolition at sea, 1808-1898 /Bernard Edwards. An account of the involvement of the Royal Navy's African Squadron in enforcing the abolition of the slave trade. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8

The History of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the abolition of the African slave-trade by the Clarkson, Thomas 1808 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:326.8(42)

Redemption of a slave ship : the story of the brig the James Matthews /Graeme Henderson. "The illegal slave trade in the 18th century told through the life of a ship called the James Matthews. The Slaver was originally built in France and used as an illegal slave transport from Africa to the West Indies; later in life it was used as a civilian transport to Western Australia where it sank in Fremantle harbour."--Provided by publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1"18/19"

That most precious merchandise : the Mediterranean trade in Black Sea slaves, 1260-1500 /Hannah Barker "The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Aegean Sea. Yet the trade in Black Sea slaves provided merchants with profit and prestige; states with military recruits, tax revenue, and diplomatic influence; and households with the service of women, men, and children. Even though Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Greater Syria were the three most important strands in the web of the Black Sea slave trade, they have rarely been studied together. Examining Latin and Arabic sources in tandem, Hannah Barker shows that Christian and Muslim inhabitants of the Mediterranean shared a set of assumptions and practices that amounted to a common culture of slavery. Indeed, the Genoese, Venetian, and Mamluk slave trades were thoroughly entangled, with wide-ranging effects. Genoese and Venetian disruption of the Mamluk trade led to reprisals against Italian merchants living in Mamluk cities, while their participation in the trade led to scathing criticism by supporters of the crusade movement who demanded commercial powers use their leverage to weaken the force of Islam. Reading notarial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209822

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