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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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

Abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill. Everill, Bronwen, 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(664:666.2)

A shocking history of Bristol Robinson, Derek 1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.241

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

The Journal of Legal History. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(42)(063)

Murder on the middle passage : the trial of Captain Kimber /Nicholas Rogers. "On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain and Ireland and was even reported in America. Soon after, Kimber was indicted for murder - but in a trial lasting just under five hours, he was found not guilty. This book is a micro-history of this important trial, reconstructing it from accounts of what was said in court and setting it in the context of pro- and anti-slavery movements. Rogers considers contemporary questions of culpability, the use and abuse of evidence, and why Kimber was criminally indicted for murder at a time when kidnapped Africans were generally regarded as 'cargo'. Importantly, the book also looks at the role of sailors in the abolition debate: both in bringing the horrors of the slave trade to public notice and as straw-men for slavery advocates, who excused the treatment of enslaved people by comparing it to punishments meted out to sailors and soldiers. The final chapter discusses the ways this incident has been used by African-American writers interested in recreating the trauma of the Middle Passage and addresses the question of whether the slave-trade archive can adequately recover the experience of being enslaved."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. KD372.K56

In the image of God: religion, moral values and our heritage of slavery. Davis, David Brion 2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326

Ireland slavery and anti-slavery : 1612-1865 /by Nini Rodgers. Rodges, Nini. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(417)"16/18"

West African slavery and Atlantic commerce : the Senegal River valley 1700-1860 /James F. Searing Searing, James F. 1993. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(663)"1700-1860"

Slavery in the age of memory : engaging the past /Ana Lucia Araujo. "Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past explains how ordinary citizens, social groups, governments and institutions engage with the past of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It illuminates how and why over the last five decades the debates about slavery have become so relevant in the societies where slavery existed and which participated in the Atlantic slave trade. The book draws on a variety of case studies to investigate its central questions. How have social actors and groups in Europe, Africa and the Americas engaged with the slave past of their societies? Are there are any relations between the demands to rename streets of Liverpool in England and the protests to take down Confederate monuments in the United States? How have black and white social actors and scholars influenced the ways slavery is represented in George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the United States?How do slave cemeteries in Brazil and the United States and the walls of names of Whitney Plantation speak to other initiatives honoring enslaved people in England and South Africa? What shared problems and goals have led to the creation of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC? Why have artists used their works to confront the debates about slavery and its legacies? The important debates addressed in this book resonate in the present day. Arguing that memory of slavery is racialized and gendered, the book shows that more than just attempts to come to terms with the past, debates about slavery are associated with the persistent racial inequalities, racism, and white supremacy which still shape societies where slavery existed. Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past is thus a vital resource for students and scholars of the Atlantic world, the history of slavery and public history."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/62

The Royal African Company / by K. G. Davies. Davies, K. G.-(Kenneth Gordon) 1975. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(6)

Amazing grace : an anthology of poems about slavery, 1660-1810 /edited by James G. Basker. 2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326:820-1

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