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The death of the French Atlantic : trade, war, and slavery in the age of revolution /Alan Forrest. "The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war at sea against France's most consistent enemy and commercial rival in the eighteenth century, Great Britain. A series of colonial wars, from the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars did much to drive France out of the North Atlantic. The second was anti-slavery and the rise of a new moral conscience which challenged the right of Europeans to own slaves or to sacrifice the freedom of others to pursue national economic advantage. The third was the French Revolution itself, which not only raised French hopes of achieving the Rights of Man for its own citizens but also sowed the seeds of insurrection in the slave societies of the New World, leading to the loss of Saint-Domingue and the creation of the first black republic in Haiti at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This proved critical to the economy of the French Caribbean, driving both colons and slaves from Saint-Domingue to seek shelter across the Atlantic world, and leaving a bitter legacy in the French Caribbean. It has also created an uneasy memory of the slave trade in French ports like Nantes, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux, and has left an indelible mark on race relations in France today."-- 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.4

Slave portraiture in the Atlantic world / edited by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal. "Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888"-- 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 75.041.5(261)

Hearing enslaved voices : African and Indian slave testimony in British and French America, 1700-1848 "This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives - including the inner and spiritual lives - of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons' lived experience as expressed in their own words."--Provided by publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 306.3/62097

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

Ismailia : a narrative of the expedition to central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade ; organized Baker, Samuel White,-Sir, 2006. • BOOK • 2 copies available.

making of early American libraries : British literature, political thought, and the transatlantic book trade "Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce-the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 070.5

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)

Admiral W F W Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada; his fight against the African slave Burrows, Edmund H. 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 528.47

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)

foreign powers, so far as they relate to commerce and navigation, to the repression and abolition of the slave Hertslet, Lewis (comp) 1820-1827 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:341.24(42)

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)

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

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

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

The diligent • • 1 copy available.

Equiano's travels : his autobiography. The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African /abridged and edited by Paul Edwards. Equiano, Olaudah, 1967. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Vassa

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

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

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

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)

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)

Mastering the worst of trades : England's early Africa companies and their traders, 1618-1672 /by Julie M. Svalastog. "This book directs its main focus to the Guinea Company and its members, aiming to understand the genealogy of several major changes taking place in the English Atlantic and in the Anglo-Africa trade in the 17th century and beyond. Little focus has been directed at the companies that preceded the Royal African Company, launched in 1672, and through presenting the Guinea Company - the earliest of England's chartered Africa companies, and its relationship with the influential men who became its members, the book questions the inevitability of the Atlantic reality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through its members, the Guinea Company emerged as a purpose-built structure with the ability to weather a volatile trade undergoing fundamental change"-- 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62094209032

The War of Jenkins' Ear : the forgotten struggle for North and South America, 1739-1742 /Robert Gaudi. Explores the causes and consequences of the 18th-century conflict across North and South America, with roots in a contract to supply African slaves to the rich colonies of the Spanish Empire, that laid the groundwork for the later French and Indian War and the American Revolution a generation later. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.26

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

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