Author : Elizabeth Donnan
Publisher :
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Slave trade
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Donnan
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Slave trade
ISBN :
Volume 1 - 1441-1700. Volume 2 - The eighteenth century. Volume 3 - New England and Middle Colonies. Volume 4 - The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies.
Author : Elizabeth Donnan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Slave trade
ISBN :
Author : Randy J. Sparks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0674726472
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.
Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1440620849
“Masterly.”—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the "floating dungeons" at the forefront of the birth of African American culture.
Author : Edda L. Fields-Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0253002966
Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.
Author : Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0300161301
A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economy In a single, readily digestible, coherent narrative, historian Thomas M. Truxes presents the three hundred–year history of the overseas trade of British America. Born from seeds planted in Tudor England in the sixteenth century, Atlantic trade allowed the initial survival, economic expansion, and later prosperity of British America, and brought vastly different geographical regions, each with a distinctive identity and economic structure, into a single fabric. Truxes shows how colonial American prosperity was only possible because of the labor of enslaved Africans, how the colonial economy became dependent on free and open markets, and how the young United States owed its survival in the struggle of the American Revolution to Atlantic trade.
Author : Phyllis Raybin Emert
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 187866848X
Examines the documents that describe the American and British slave trade in the 1780s.
Author : Vincent Carretta
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813159466
Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors address the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period, explore how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy, discuss the impact of Christian religion and the Enlightenment on definitions of freedom and liberty, and identify ways in which black literature both engaged with and rebelled against Anglo-American culture.
Author : Cynthia Mestad Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1625850158
An unsettling story of corruption and exploitation in the Ocean State from slave ships to politics. Over thirty thousand slaves were brought to the shores of colonial America on ships owned and captained by James DeWolf. When the United States took action to abolish slavery, this Bristol native manipulated the legal system and became actively involved in Rhode Island politics in order to pursue his trading ventures. He served as a member of the House of Representatives in the state of Rhode Island and as a United States senator, all while continuing the slave trade years after passage of the Federal Slave Trade Act of 1808. DeWolf's political power and central role in sustaining the state's economy allowed him to evade prosecution from local and federal authorities--even on counts of murder. Through archival records, author Cynthia Mestad Johnson uncovers the secrets of James DeWolf.
