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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)
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)
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
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
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)
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
Understanding global slavery : a reader /Kevin Bales.
Bales, Kevin.
2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
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)
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
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 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
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
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)
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
The damn'd master
Plimmer, Charlotte
1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Collingwood, Luke
The many-headed hydra : sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic
Linebaugh, Peter
2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
626.61.071.22(261.1)
Cannibal cargoes
Holthouse, Hector
1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(93)
Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa /Paul E. Lovejoy.
"This history of slavery in Africa from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Professor Lovejoy examines the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the process of enslavement and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history."--Back cover.
2000 [reprinted 2006] • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(6)"15/19"
Reconfiguring slavery : West African trajectories /edited by Benedetta Rossi.
2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(6-15)
Slaves and slavery : the British colonial experience
Walvin, James
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1
The Amistad rebellion : an Atlantic odyssey of slavery and freedom /Marcus Rediker.
"The dramatic story of a courageous rebellion against slavery On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless night, the captive Africans that comprised that cargo escaped from the hold, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the US navy and thrown into a Connecticut jail. Their legal battle for freedom eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where former president John Quincy Adams took up their cause. In a landmark ruling, they were freed and eventually returned to Africa. The rebellion became one of the best-known events in the history of American slavery, celebrated as a triumph of the US legal system in books and films, most famously Steven Spielberg?s Amistad. These narratives reflect the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved. In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its instigators: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence, Rediker reaches back to Africa to find the rebels? roots, narrates their cataclysmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a prison story of great drama and emotive power. Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the Africans, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, The Amistad Rebellion shows how the rebels captured the popular imagination and helped to inspire and build a movement that was part of a grand global struggle for emancipation. The actions of that distant July night and inthe days and months that followed were pivotal events in American and Atlantic history, but not for the reasons we have always thought. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of Africans steered a course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This stunning book honours their achievement."--Provided by the publisher.
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
355.133"1839"
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