A short history of transatlantic slavery / Kenneth Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Kenneth, 1953- author.

Series:

I.B. Tauris short histories.

I.B. Tauris short histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) : ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Other Title:

Transatlantic slavery

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The flows of the slave trade

The slaving business

Plantation slavery

Slave resistance

The abolition of the slave trade

Slave emancipation.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-231) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781350985209

1350985201

9780857728555

0857728555

9780857728524

0857728520

OCLC:

1128156842