Research Catalog

Title

The slave trade / James Walvin.

Author

Walvin, James

Publication

New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

144 p. : ill. (some col.); 21 cm. +

Summary

History Files: This new paperback series presents the people, events, and ideas that shaped our past and made our present. Drawing upon the latest research, the books are abundantly illustrated with telling images from out-of-the-way sources, and offer the tangible fragments of vanished times in the form of loose-leaf facsimile documents that are included in the books.

Series Statement

History files

Uniform Title

History files

Subject

Slave trade > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A trade with global consequences -- The European slave trade with Africa -- Sugar and slavery -- The Middle Passage -- Destinations and slave life -- Slave resistance -- Abolition -- Legacies.
• Documents. List of goods on a 1688 Dutch voyage for the purchase of slaves -- Log of the slave ship Unity bound from Liverpool to West Africa, 1769 -- Jamaican newspaper notice of rewards for return of runaway slaves, 1779 -- Letter from an African slave trader to his Liverpool shipping partner, 1783 -- Minutes of the first meeting of the Committee for Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1787 -- Stowage of the Liverpool slave ship Brookes, 1788 -- Letter from a slave to his master asking to purchase his own freedom -- Notice of a slave sale in Charleston, 1859 -- Abraham Lincoln's 1862 Emancipation Proclamation -- Legal decree of the total abolition of slavery in Brazil, 1888.

ISBN

• 9780500289174
• 0500289174

OCLC

• 668194639
• SCSB-12840736

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library