Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion against the Slave Trade 1787-1807
1st Edition
By J.R. Oldfield
October 01, 1998
In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain....
Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
1st Edition
Edited
By David Eltis, David Richardson
July 31, 1997
Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities....
Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830
1st Edition
By Dr Norma Myers, Norma Myers
July 31, 1996
This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers and journals, parliamentary ...
Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane G. Landers
May 01, 1996
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum...
Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Fog Olwig
August 01, 1995
This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean....
Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers
December 31, 1993
This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West....