A short history of transatlantic slavery

書誌事項

A short history of transatlantic slavery

Kenneth Morgan

(I.B. Tauris short histories)

I.B. Tauris, 2016

  • : HB
  • : pb

タイトル別名

Transatlantic slavery

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

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詳細情報
  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB23472473
  • ISBN
    • 9781780763866
    • 9781780763873
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xx, 239 p.
  • 大きさ
    22-23 cm
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