Book Description
The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire -- as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived.
Author : Christer Petley
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0198791631
The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire -- as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived.
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Page : 218 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1778
Category : United States
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Author : Almon Publisher J. Almon Publisher
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104923457
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Leonardo Rogala
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2015-11-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781519278579
On June 3, 1621, the Dutch West India Company was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies (meaning the Caribbean) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the Atlantic slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America. The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Cape of Good Hope) and the Americas, which included the Pacific Ocean and the eastern part of New Guinea. The intended purpose of the charter was to eliminate competition, particularly Spanish or Portuguese, between the various trading posts established by the merchants. The company became instrumental in the Dutch colonization of the Americas.
Author : Richard B. Sheridan
Publisher : Canoe Press (IL)
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789768125132
This book covers the changing preference of growing sugar rather than tobacco which had been the leading crop in the trans-Atlantic colonies. The Sugar Islands were Antigua, Barbados, St. Christopher, Dominica, and Cuba through Trinidad. Jamaica has been by far the major producer of sugar, but The Lesser Antilles had the advantage of a shorter sea trip to deliver produce and rum to the European Markets during the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Author : Planter
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1789
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1789
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Author : Johannes M. Postma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521048248
Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives. The book examines the whole range of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade from the beginning of the 1600s to the nineteenth century.
Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 022663924X
"As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because to speak bluntly it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North American colonies, but those in their booming and integrated commercial hub, Jamaica. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy."--
Author : William Wilberforce
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
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