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Book Slaves and Slavery

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  • Author : James Walvin
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780719037511
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Slaves and Slavery written by James Walvin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om negerslaveriets start i Afrika allerede i romertiden, men især om slaveriet og slavernes forhold i de engelske kolonier i Vestindien og USA op til frigivelsen i 1838.

Book Slavery and the British Empire

Download or read book Slavery and the British Empire written by Kenneth Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, which especially focuses on the two centuries from 1650, and covers the Atlantic world, especially North America and the West Indies, as well as the Cape Colony, Mauritius, and India. -;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. -;...a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade - Spartacus Review

Book After Abolition

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  • Author : Marika Sherwood
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2007-02-23
  • ISBN : 0857710133
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book After Abolition written by Marika Sherwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the Emancipation Act of 1833, Britain seemed to wash its hands of slavery. Not so, according to Marika Sherwood, who sets the record straight in this provocative new book. In fact, Sherwood demonstrates that Britain continued to contribute to the slave trade well after 1807, even into the twentieth century. Drawing on government documents and contemporary reports as well as published sources, she describes how slavery remained very much a part of British investment, commerce and empire, especially in funding and supplying goods for the trade in slaves and in the use of slave-grown produce. The nancial world of the City in London also depended on slavery, which - directly and indirectly - provided employment for millions of people. "After Abolition" also examines some of the causes and repercussions of continued British involvement in slavery and describes many of the apparently respectable villains, as well as the heroes, connected with the trade - at all levels of society. It contains important revelations about a darker side of British history, previously unexplored, which will provoke real questions about Britain's perceptions of its past

Book Slave Nation

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  • Author : Alfred W Blumrosen
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2006-11-01
  • ISBN : 140222611X
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Slave Nation written by Alfred W Blumrosen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book all Americans should read, Slave Nation reveals the key role racism played in the American Revolutionary War, so we can see our past more clearly and build a better future. In 1772, the High Court in London freed a slave from Virginia named Somerset, setting a precedent that would end slavery in England. In America, racist fury over this momentous decision united the Northern and Southern colonies and convinced them to fight for independence. Meticulously researched and accessible, Slave Nation provides a little-known view of the birth of our nation and its earliest steps toward self-governance. Slave Nation is a fascinating account of the role slavery played in the American Revolution and in the framing of the Constitution, offering a fresh examination of the "fight for freedom" that embedded racism into our national identity, led to the Civil War, and reverberates through Black Lives Matter protests today. "A radical, well-informed, and highly original reinterpretation of the place of slavery in the American War of Independence."—David Brion Davis, Yale University

Book Econocide

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  • Author : Seymour Drescher
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0807834467
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Econocide written by Seymour Drescher and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's

Book Final Passages

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  • Author : Gregory E. O'Malley
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 1469615347
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book Final Passages written by Gregory E. O'Malley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Book A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies

Download or read book A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies written by Anthony Benezet and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A dissuasion to Great Britain and the Colonies  from the Slave Trade to Africa  shewing the injustice thereof  Revised and abridged

Download or read book A dissuasion to Great Britain and the Colonies from the Slave Trade to Africa shewing the injustice thereof Revised and abridged written by James SWAN (Colonel.) and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery

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  • Author : Page DuBois
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-03-25
  • ISBN : 0755614275
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Slavery written by Page DuBois and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of 'liberte, egalite, fraternite'; and both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as inalienable human right that in the modern world we expect to take for granted. In the ancient world, by contrast, the concepts of freedom and equality had little purchase. Athenians, Spartans and Romans all possessed slaves or helots (unfree bondsmen), and society was unequal at every stratum. Why, then, if modern society abominates slavery, does what antiquity thought about serfdom matter today? Page duBois shows that slavery, far from being extinct, is alive and well in the contemporary era. Slaves are associated not just with the Colosseum of ancient Rome but also with Californian labour factories and south Asian sweatshops, while young women and children appear increasingly vulnerable to sexual trafficking. Applying such modern experiences of bondage (economic or sexual) to slavery in antiquity, the author explores the writings on the subject of Aristotle, Plautus, Terence and Aristophanes. She also examines the case of Spartacus, famous leader of a Roman slave rebellion, and relates ancient notions of liberation to the all-too-common immigrant experience of enslavement to a globalized world of rampant corporatism and exploitative capitalism.

Book Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade  1807 1896

Download or read book Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807 1896 written by Richard Anderson and published by Rochester Studies in African H. This book was released on 2020 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"--

Book The Slave Colonies of Great Britain  Or  a Picture of Negro Slavery Drawn by the Colonists Themselves  Being an Abstract of the Various Papers Recentl

Download or read book The Slave Colonies of Great Britain Or a Picture of Negro Slavery Drawn by the Colonists Themselves Being an Abstract of the Various Papers Recentl written by Zachary Macaulay and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book White Cargo

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  • Author : Don Jordan
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2008-03-08
  • ISBN : 0814742963
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book White Cargo written by Don Jordan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-03-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide "breeders" for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock. Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.

Book The First Black Slave Society

Download or read book The First Black Slave Society written by Hilary Beckles and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.

Book A caution and warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies

Download or read book A caution and warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies written by Anthony Benezet and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Benezet's work from the 1760s offers a poignant representation of the dire state of enslaved negroes in British territories. This historical account serves as a cautionary tale, shedding light on the dark side of colonization and the inhumane conditions of slavery. A significant read for those interested in world history and the history of special subjects.