Before the Slave Trade
Author : Robin Walker
Publisher :
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780955969508
In the Shadow of Slavery
Author : Judith Carney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520949536
Book Description
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods—millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example—are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots—"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"—became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.
Crossings
Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1780232047
Book Description
We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing on the subject has focused on the European traders and the arrival of slaves in North America. In Crossings, eminent historian James Walvin covers these established territories while also traveling back to the story’s origins in Africa and south to Brazil, an often forgotten part of the triangular trade, in an effort to explore the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic. Reconstructing the transatlantic slave trade from an extensive archive of new research, Walvin seeks to understand and describe how the trade began in Africa, the terrible ordeals experienced there by people sold into slavery, and the scars that remain on the continent today. Journeying across the ocean, he shows how Brazilian slavery was central to the development of the slave trade itself, as that country tested techniques and methods for trading and slavery that were successfully exported to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas in the following centuries. Walvin also reveals the answers to vital questions that have never before been addressed, such as how a system that the Western world came to despise endured so long and how the British—who were fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade—became the most prominent proponents of its eradication. The most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, Crossings offers a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history.
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law
Author : Jenny S. Martinez
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0195391624
Book Description
There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.
Transformations in Slavery
Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1139502778
Book Description
This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
A Fistful of Shells
Author : Toby Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 022664474X
Book Description
By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
Where the Negroes Are Masters
Author : Randy J. Sparks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0674726472
Book Description
Annamaboe--largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast--was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. Randy Sparks recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings.
The Slave Community
Author : John W. Blassingame
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade
Author : William D. Phillips
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 9780719018251
Book Description
The Awakening; Who Was I Before Slavery?
Author : Helen Brock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2017-02-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781540862754
Book Description
Prior to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the 1600s, what was your nationality? What did you call yourself? Was it African? Africa is a continent and that continent is comprised of 53 different countries. Which one do you come from? What language did you speak? There are over 1500 dialects spoken in Africa. What clothing did you wear? What food did you eat? What religion did you practice? Who was your God? Most African Americans do not know the answers to these questions and have no remembrance of any history prior to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Is that by coincidence or random chance? Have you ever asked yourself why is it in the public school system that every time the subject of black history is taught, it ALWAYS begins in 1619 with slavery? Why is that? Why are the schools so committed to revolving black history to the last 400 years? Is it because there is not any historical data prior to the 1600s? What is so secretive, what's the big deal, and why can't our history be taught 100 years before slavery, 200, 300? Do any of these questions cause you to go "hum"? Billions of dollars have been spent to keep our history from us, but historians, biblical scholars, and archeologist know something most of us do not know and that is, our true identify. Most of the so called African Americans are unaware of their true identity. We will present information to show you how we are sleep walking through this life and why it is critical for us to wake up in order to fulfill the prophecy and destiny God set before the creation of the world. Let us take a deeper dive into the awakening. There have been actual incidents of people walking, talking, and eating, all while they sleep. It is possible to be still asleep and look like you are awake, but you are not.
