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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kenneth MorganSeries:Short HistoriesPublish date:2016-07-30Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781780763873ISBN-10:1780763875UPC:9781780763873Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Slavery, Americas (North Central South West Indies), AfricaBook Topic:WestSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCHH3VM84N
From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations - Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution.
Language:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781780763873ISBN-10:1780763875UPC:9781780763873Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Slavery, Americas (North Central South West Indies), AfricaBook Topic:WestSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCHH3VM84N
Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University. He is the author of Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (1993), Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 (2000), Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2007) and Australia: A Very Short Introduction (2012).
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company

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