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Loanda; and report from British Vice-Admiralty Courts, and from British naval officers, relating to the slave Great Britain. Parliament 1861 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 326.1

Atlas of slavery / James Walvin. The history of slavery from ancient to modern times using an atlas format. Professor Walvin examines the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas "through a collection of maps and related text which puts the key features of the history of slavery in their defining geographical setting [...] and shows how the people of three widely separated continents were brought together into an economic and human system that was characterized by both violence and cruelty to its victims and huge economic advantage to its owners and managers."--Provided by the publisher. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(084.4)

The occupation of Havana : war, trade, and slavery in the Atlantic world /Elena A. Schneider. "In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America. The Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba's return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions."--Provided by publisher. 2018 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(729.1)

Slavery and the British empire : from Africa to America /Kenneth Morgan. "Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/620941

A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica : the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 Gamble, Samuel, 2002 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Sandown

The diligent • • 1 copy available.

Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / edited by Derek R. Peterson. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8:327.2(42:6:261)

Liverpool and transatlantic slavery / edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles. An edited collection of essays published to coincide with the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. 2007. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 326.1

Abolition and its aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia / edited by Gwyn Campbell. "Examines the various abolitionist impulses, indigenous and European, in the Indian Ocean world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy and European colonisation"--Preface. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(267)

Slaver captain / by John Newton, ed. with an introduction by Vincent McInerney. This title comprises two accounts written by John Newton (1725-1807): Thoughts on the African Slave Trade: A memoir of my infidel days as a slaving captain, published in 1788, and An Authentic Narrative of some remarkable particulars in the life of John Newton, published in 1764. Newton worked on the slave ships Brownlow (as mate) and the Duke of Argyle and African (as captain), sailing out of Liverpool, before retiring from the slave trade on the grounds of ill-health. He went on to become an adviser to William Wilberforce and an active campaigner in the abolition movement. Thoughts on the African Slave Trade was written some thirty years after his retirement from the slave trade as a contribution to the arguments for abolition of the slave trade as well as a public confession and it contains explicit descriptions of the conditions on slave ships and the brutality of the treatment meted out to enslaved people. Converting to Christianity, Newton was ordained into the Church of England ministry and is known for having written Amazing Grace. The Authentic Narrative consists of a series of letters written by Newton to support his entry into the Anglican ministry. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92NEWTON, JOHN

A short history of slavery / James Walvin. Published for the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, this title selects the historical texts that recreate the mindset which made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

The Humphrey Morice papers from the Bank of England, London : a listing and guide to the microfilm collection. Morice, Humphry, 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada, his fight against the African slave trade, Burrows, Edmund H. 1979. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92OWEN

Discourses of slavery and abolition : Britain and its colonies, 1760-1838 /edited by Brycchan Carey, Markman Ellis, and Sara Salih. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326(41-44)"17/18"

Slavhandel och slaveri unde svensk flagg : Koloniala drèommar och verklighet i Afrika och Karibien 1770-1847 /Holger Weiss. Weiss, Holger 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(485)

Slavery hinterland : transatlantic slavery and continental Europe, 1680-1850 /edited by Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft. ''Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business, the plantation economics that it fed and the consequences of its abolition. The volume unearths material entanglements of the Continental and Atlantic economies and also proposes a new agenda for the historical study of the relationship between business and morality. Contributors from the US, Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects.''--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62094

Representing slavery : art, artefacts and archives in the collections of the National Maritime Museum /edited by Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth. 2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 326.1:7

Christian slaves, Muslim masters : white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary coast and Italy, 1500-1800 Davis, Robert C 2003 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(2)

Understanding global slavery : a reader /Kevin Bales. Bales, Kevin. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

and subsequent slavery, and interesting details of the manners of the Arabs of the desert, and of the slave "A ... first-hand account of an ill-fated French expedition to explore west Africa in the late 18th century. The explorers, Messieurs Saugnier and Bresson were shipwrecked off the coast of Senegal, only to be sold into Arabic slavery, where they languished for a long time before being rescued. During their incarceration the two men learned Arabic and made many ... observations of the then rulers of Africa that are set down here. Despite their grim experiences, the two men were keen to return to Africa and the book is therefore a prospectus for other bold explorers to follow in their footsteps; and the area they traversed did indeed become France?s African empire."--Publishers website. 1792 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(6)

Slavery and the birth of an African city : Lagos, 1760-1900 /Kristin Mann. "As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the nineteenth century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator, Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities."--book jacket. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(42:669.199)

"A just and honourable commerce" : abolitionist experimentation in Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries /Suzanne Schwarz. Schwarz, Suzanne. 2014. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

Sacred hunger Unsworth, Barry 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Britain's history and memory of transatlantic slavery : local nuances of a 'national sin' /edited by Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica Moody. "Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3620941

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