British Antislavery, 1833-1870
Author : Howard Temperley
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN :
Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire
Author : Josep M. Fradera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857459341
Book Description
African slavery was pervasive in Spain’s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain’s role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade.
British Antislavery
Author : Howard Temperley
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Empire and Antislavery
Author : Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
In 1872, there were more than 300,000 slaves in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Though the Spanish government had passed a law for gradual abolition in 1870, slaveowners, particularly in Cuba, clung tenaciously to their slaves as unfree labour was at the core of the colonial economies. Moreover, the Spanish bourgeoisie was deeply implicated in colonial slavery as Spain was the last European power to abolish the slave trade and bonded labour in the Americas.
Women Against Slavery
Author : Clare Midgley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134798806
Book Description
This comprehensive study of women anti-slavery campaigners fills a serious gap in abolitionist history. Covering all stages of the campaign, Women Against Slavery uses hitherto neglected sources to build up a vivid picture of the lives, words and actions of the women who were involved, and their distinctive contribution to the abolitionist movement. It looks at the way women's participation influenced the organisation, activities, policy and ideology of the campaign, and analyses the impact of female activism on women's own attitudes to their social roles, and their participation in public life. Exploring the vital role played by gender in shaping the movement as a whole, this book makes an important contribution to the debate on `race' and gender.
British Unitarians Against American Slavery, 1833-65
Author : Douglas C. Stange
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838631683
Book Description
This study of the British Unitarians is the story of this group's thirty-year war against the master sin of the world--American slavery. Focusing on the group known as the Garrisonians, the author examines their racial views, their attitudes toward the Civil War, their relations with the American antislavery movement, and the difficult problem of the relation between religious commitment and social activism.
Transformations in Slavery
Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 19,45 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.
Popular Politics and British Anti-slavery
Author : John R. Oldfield
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 0714644625
Book Description
This work explains how the expression of support for black people in 1792, when 400,000 people called for the abolition of the slave trade, was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain.
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804
Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521840686
Book Description
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Capitalism and Slavery
Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1469619490
Book Description
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.
