Making the Black Atlantic : Britain and the African diaspora / James Walvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walvin, James, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury academic collections. History of the transatlantic slave trade.

The history of the transatlantic slave trade: Bloomsbury Academic collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Africa, West.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Great Britain.

Slave trade--North Atlantic Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation and their colonial settlements in the Caribbean and North America absorbed vast numbers of Africans. The crops produced by those slaves helped to lay the foundations for Western material well-being, and their associated cultural habits helped to shape key areas of Western sociability that survive to this day. Britain was also central in the drive to end slavery, in her own possessions and elsewhere in the world. Making the Black Atlantic presents a coherent story of Britain's role in the African diaspora, its origins, progress, and transformation."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

1.Before the British

2.The Coming of the British

3.Origins and Destinations

4.Plantations

5.Slave Culture

6.Profiting from Slavery

7.Black Britain

8.The Fruits of Slave Labour

9.Quakers and Other Friends

10.Attacking Slavery

11.Consequences.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474292917

1474292917

9781474292900

1474292909

OCLC:

957490939