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Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh.
Ghosh, Amitav.
2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
820.3
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"
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
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
The Journal of Legal History.
2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(42)(063)
A shocking history of Bristol
Robinson, Derek
1973 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
914.241
Abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill.
Everill, Bronwen,
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(664:666.2)
In the image of God: religion, moral values and our heritage of slavery.
Davis, David Brion
2001. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326
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
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
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"
Amazing grace : an anthology of poems about slavery, 1660-1810 /edited by James G. Basker.
2002. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326:820-1
The Royal African Company / by K. G. Davies.
Davies, K. G.-(Kenneth Gordon)
1975. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(6)
German entanglements in transatlantic slavery / edited by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Pia Wiegmink.
"Germany has long entertained the notion that the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery involved only other European players. Countering this premise, this collection re-charts various routes of German participation in, profiteering from, and resistance to transatlantic slavery and its cultural, political, and intellectual reverberations. Exploring how German financiers, missionaries, and immigrant writers made profit from, morally responded to, and fictionalized their encounters with New World slavery, the contributors demonstrate that these various German entanglements with New World slavery revise preconceived ideas that erase German involvements from the history of slavery and the Black Atlantic. Moreover, the collection brings together these German perspectives on slavery with an investigation of German colonial endeavors in Africa, thereby seeking to interrogate historical processes (or fantasies) of empire-building, colonialism, and slavery which, according to public memory, seem to have taken place in isolation from each other. The collection demonstrates that they should be regarded as part and parcel of a narrative that ingrained colonialism and slavery in the German cultural memory and identity to a much larger extent than has been illustrated and admitted so far in general discourses in contemporary Germany."--Provided by the publisher.
2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/620943
The Zong : a massacre, the law and the end of slavery /James Walvin.
"On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today. Historian James Walvin explores all aspects of the Zong's voyage and the subsequent trial - a case brought to court not for the murder of the slaves but as a suit against the insurers who denied the owners' claim that their 'cargo' had been necessarily jettisoned. The scandalous case prompted wide debate and fueled Britain's awakening abolition movement. Without the episode of the Zong, Walvin contends, the process of ending the slave trade would have taken an entirely different moral and political trajectory. He concludes with a fascinating discussion of how the case of the Zong, though unique in the history of slave ships, has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships."--Provided by the publisher.
2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(42)
Slavery at sea : Terror, sex, and sickness in the Middle Passage /Sowande' M. Mustakeem.
"Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--infamously known as the Middle Passage--comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the making--and unmaking--of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. Mustakeem offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the world's most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries."--Provided by the publisher.
2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(261/264)
Freedom burning : anti-slavery and empire in Victorian Britain /Richard Huzzey.
Huzzey, Richard,
2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(42)"18"
Tarnished gold : Ghana and the Netherlands from 1593 /Gijs van der Ham.
"Gijs van der Ham's book Tarnished Gold tells the story of the Dutch presence in Ghana with reference to a fascinating series of artefacts, maps, drawings, engravings and paintings, most of them part of the Rijksmuseum collection in Amsterdam. This painful and yet fascinating story is one of inhumanity and curiosity, competition and exploitation, power and subjugation, the encounter between two very different cultures, and human lives that were dramatically and irrevocably changed - above all, and most tragically, by the slave trade. Gijs van der Ham (b. 1955) is senior curator of history at the Rijksmuseum. In 2013 he published The history of the Netherlands in 100 objects, a book likewise based on the Rijksmuseum collection. Tarnished Gold is part of the Country Series published by the Rijksmuseum's History Department. By researching objects from the Rijksmuseum Collection, the series describes the shared history of the Netherlands with Indonesia, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Ghana, Suriname and Brazil."--Provided by the publisher.
2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.1(492:667)
Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution : an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820 /J.R. Oldfield.
"Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochial British, European or American affair, and instead reframes the abolition movement as a broad international network of activists across a range of metropolitan centres and remote outposts. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the dynamics of transatlantic abolitionism, along with its structure, mechanisms and business methods, and in doing so, highlights the delicate balance that existed between national and international interests in an age of massive political upheaval throughout the Atlantic world. By setting slave trade debates within a wider international context, Professor Oldfield reveals how popular abolitionism emerged as a political force in the 1780s, and how it adapted itself to the tumultuous events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."--Provided by the publisher.
2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
326.8(261)"17/18"
West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783-1807 / David Beck Ryden.
"This book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. Recent historians believe that this first blow against slavery was the result of social changes inside Britain and pay little attention to the important developments that took place inside the West Indian slave economy. David Beck Ryden's research illustrates that a faltering sugar economy after 1799 tipped the scales in favor of the abolitionist argument and helped secure the passage of abolition." "Ryden examines the economic arguments against slavery and the slave trade that were employed in the writings of Britain's most important abolitionists. Using a wide range of economic and business data, this study deconstructs the assertions made by both abolitionists and anti-abolitionists regarding slave management, the imperial economy, and abolition."--BOOK JACKET.
2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
306.3/6209729
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