Liverpool and transatlantic slavery

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Liverpool and transatlantic slavery

edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles

Liverpool University Press, 2007

Available at  / 7 libraries

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"National Museums Liverpool, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson. The book sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery and addresses issues in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery, including African agency and trade experience. Emphasis is placed on the human characteristics and impacts of transatlantic slavery. It also opens up new areas of debate on Liverpool's participation in the slave trade and helps to frame the research agenda for the future.

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Foreword DAVID FLEMING Advisory Committee and Curators Foreword to First Edition SIR PETER MOORES Introduction ANTHONY TIBBLES 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 STEPHEN SMALL AND JAMES WALVIN 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 and West Africa after 1807 ANTHONYTIBBLES Black People in Britain JAMES WALVIN British Abolitionism 1787-1838 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 The Challenge of Remembering Slavery LONNIE G. BUNCH Interpreting Transatlantic Slavery: The Role of Museums ANTHONY TIBBLES Catalogue Select Bibliography Photographic Credits Index

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