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Ambiguous anniversary : the bicentennial of the international slave trade bans / edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
- The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--North America--History.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--Great Britain--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- History.
- Slavery.
- Great Britain.
- Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
- Slavery--North America--History.
- Slavery--Great Britain--History.
- Antislavery movements--North America--History.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.
- North America.
- Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- With 2007/2008 marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the formal abolition of the international slave trade by Britain and the United States, Gleeson (history, Northumbria U., England) and Lewis (world literature, College of Charleston, US) present ten essays that examine different aspects of the legacy of the slave trade. Topics include: the legislative and social processes by which the trade was abolished by both countries, the experiences of women and children slaves, continued forced migration after abolition, the spread of slavery to the American west after the abolition of the international slave trade, the impact of the abolition on the formation of racial identity in the United States, and the politics of memory in the commemoration of the abolition in Britain. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Proscription by Degrees: The Ending of the African Slave Trade to the United States / Kenneth Morgan Morgan, Kenneth 1
- "Most contemptible in the Union": South Carolina, Slavery, and the Constitution / Jonathan Mercantini Mercantini, Jonathan 35
- African Children and the Transatlantic Slave Trade across Time and Place / Wilma King King, Wilma 52
- "Madda! Madda! Yiera! Yiera!": African Women Slaves and the Abolition of the British Transatlantic Slave Trade / Inge Dornan Dornan, Inge 79
- Slave Trading Entrepôts and Their Hinterlands: Continued Forced Migrations after the Middle Passage to North America / Gregory E. O' Malley Malley, Gregory E. O' 99
- The M-Factor in Southern History / Louis M. Kyriakoudes Kyriakoudes, Louis M., Peter A. Coclanis Coclanis, Peter A. 125
- An Ambiguous Legacy: The Closing of the African Slave Trade and America's Own Middle Passage / Steven Deyle Deyle, Steven 138
- Blackness without Ethnicity: Some Hypotheses on the End of the African Slave Trade in 1808, Race, and the Search for Slave Identity in Early American Louisiana / Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec Glaunec, Jean-Pierre Le 153
- Irish American Identity and the Reopening of the Atlantic Slave Trade / David T. Gleeson Gleeson, David T. 176
- 2007 Revisited: Commemoration, Ritual, and British Transatlantic Slavery / John Oldfield Oldfield, John 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611170962
- 1611170966
- OCLC:
- 785390180
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