Transatlantic Slavery : against human dignity

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Transatlantic Slavery : against human dignity

edited by Anthony Tibbles

HMSO, c1994

  • : pbk

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Catalogue of the gallery of the same name at the Merseyside Maritime Museum

Bibliography: p166. - Includes index

At foot of title page: National Galleries & Museums on Merseyside

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: pbk ISBN 9780112905394

Description

Between about 1500 and about 1870, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic by European traders to work as slaves in the Americas. They were shipped in conditions of great cruelty to lead lives of hard, unremitting labour, subject to degradation and violence. The products of their labour - primarily sugar, coffee and tobacco - were sent back to Europe and the profits derived from slavery helped fuel European economic development in the 18th and 19th centuries. The cost in lives and human suffering was enormous. But transatlantic slavery is not just an historical tragedy. Though there may be disagreement and controversy about the consequences, it changed the history of three continents - Africa, America and Europe. All of us live with its legacy. This publication accompanies the opening of Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity, a new gallery at Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool. The gallery seeks to increase public understanding of the experience of black people in Britain and the modern world. This volume describes the objects featured in the gallery and includes 15 essays written by the guest curators and staff who have been involved in developing this gallery. The essays cover a variety of topics such as the rise of the Atlantic empires, the impact on West and Central Africa, women in slavery, and an African view of transatlantic slavery.

Table of Contents

  • Articles: Introduction to the Atlantic slave trade and transatlantic slavery
  • The rise of the Atlantic empires, David Richardson
  • Human cargoes - enslavement and the Middle Passage, Edward Reynolds
  • Guineamen- some technical aspects of slave ships, M.K.Stammers
  • African resistance to enslavement, James Walvin and Stephen Small
  • Caribbean slave society, Alissandra Cummins
  • Women in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, Jennifer Lyle Morgan
  • Liverpool and the English slave trade, David Richardson
  • Oil not slaves- Liverpool's trade with West Africa after 1807
  • Blacks in Britain, James Walvin
  • British Abolitionism 1787-1839, James Walvin
  • The impact of the slave trade on the societies of West and Central Africa, Patrick Manning
  • An African view of transatlantic slavery and the role of oral testimony in creating a new legacy, Mary E. Modupe Kolawole
  • Racist ideologies, Stephen Small
  • On the meaning and history of slavery, Preston King
  • The general legacy of the Atlantic slave trade, Stephen Small. Catalogue: Arranged by sections of exhibition - summary introduction to each section, list of objects, with brief descriptions.
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ISBN 9780112905455

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Artifacts of the slave trade between 1500 and 1870 highlight this book, which also features a collection of essays covering such topics as the African perspective, the rise of Atlantic empires created by using slavery, and women in slavery. The photographs feature many African objects and other pieces from the period never before seen by the public.

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