Slaves and slavery : the British colonial experience
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Slaves and slavery : the British colonial experience
Manchester University Press, c1992
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by: New York : St. Martin's Press
Bibliography: p. 112-115
Includes index
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: cloth ISBN 9780719037504
Description
This work set out to describe, in broad outline, the history of slavery and the slave trade in the British colonies up to 1838. In that year all slaves in British possession were freed. Moreover, those slaves were black, imported from Africa or born to Africans and their descendants in the Americas. The book, therefore concentrates on black slavery. It does not seek to tell the story of slavery in the USA although it is concerned with slavery in the Northern American colonies before they broke away from British control in 1776. This work does not try to explain the course of slavery in the non-English speaking world, save only where it impinges on the course of British slavery. It is then a brief account of the British involvement with black slavery from the early days of European colonization through to the early 19th century. Some attempt is then made to trace the legacy of black slavery, a legacy which survives in a host of ways today.
Table of Contents
- Slavery in its context
- European expansion and the origins of slavery
- British slavery
- the slave trade
- slaves at work
- slaves at rest
- resistance
- ending slavery
- the legacy.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719037511
Description
This work aims to describe, in broad outline, the history of slavery and the slave trade in the British colonies up to the abolition of slavery in all British possessions in 1838. It traces its devastating impact on black culture and its transforming effect on the British economy.
Table of Contents
- Slavery in its context
- European expansion and the origins of slavery
- British slavery
- the slave trade
- slaves at work
- slaves at rest
- resistance
- ending slavery
- the legacy.
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