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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)

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

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)

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

"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.

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)

Slaves and highlanders : silenced histories of Scotland and the Caribbean /David Alston. "Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting down those who escaped from bondage. This book focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted from these crimes against humanity in the Caribbean Islands and Guyana, some reluctantly but many with enthusiasm and without remorse. Their voices are clearly heard in the archives, while in the same sources their victims' stories are silenced - reduced to numbers and listed as property."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62094115

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

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)

The damn'd master Plimmer, Charlotte 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Collingwood, Luke

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"

Cannibal cargoes Holthouse, Hector 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(93)

Adventures of an African slaver : being a true account of the life of Captain Theodore Canot, trader in gold, ivory & slaves on the coast of Guinea : his own story as told in the year 1854 /to Brantz Mayer now edited with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Canot, Theodore 1928. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

Prospectus of the Society Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilisation of Africa 1840 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4

Ouidah : the social history of a West African slaving port 1727-1892 Law, Robin 2004 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(668.2)"1727/1892"

Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh, Amitav. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820.3

The northern Gabon coast to 1875 Patterson, K David 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

American slavers and the Federal law, 1837-1862 / by Warren S. Howard Howard, Warren S 1963 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.124.79(73):326

Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history /Ian Baucom. Baucom, Ian, 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1

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