The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Author: Philip Misevich

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9781782046561

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Written by leading younger and distinguished senior scholars, the twelve accomplished essays in this volume probe the long and interconnected histories of slavery and the slave trade and of abolition and emancipation throughout the Atlantic world. Drawing on innovative new research using quantitative and qualitative evidence and foregrounding economic, cultural, demographic, environmental, and political questions, the chapters recast knowledge about the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the commerce in human beings needed to support it that forever changed Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The essays demonstrate the mixed consequences and ambiguous legacies of abolition, the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by the transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first century as well as historical problems and debates, this book will appeal to undergraduates and nonspecialists as well as to advanced researchers. Philip Misevich is assistant professor of history at St. John's University and Kristin Mann is professor of history at Emory University.

The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History
The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-12

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 131755454X

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In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to abolition, including comparisons to other systems of slavery outside the Atlantic region and the persistence of modern-day slavery. Crucially, the book does not ask readers to abandon their emotional ties to the subject, but puts events in context so that it becomes clear how such an institution not only arose, but flourished. Black shows that slavery and the slave trade were not merely add-ons to the development of Western civilization, but intimately linked to it. In a vital and accessible narrative, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History enables students to understand this terrible element of human history and how it shaped the modern world.

Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World

Author: Jane Landers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1351800434

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This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Swedish materials from Europe, Africa and Latin America. Their work draws on legal suits, merchant correspondence, Catholic sacramental records, and rare newspapers dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Essays cover the volume of the early South Atlantic slave trade; African and African-descended religious and cultural communities in Rio de Janeiro and the Spanish circum-Caribbean; Eurafrican trade alliances on the Gold Coast; and public participation in abolition in nineteenth-century Brazil. These essays change and enrich our understandings of slavery and its end in the Atlantic World. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System
Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System

Author: Barbara L. Solow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521457378

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Placing slavery in the mainstream of modern history, the essays in this survey describe its transfer from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the Atlantic economies, and its impact on Africa.

Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World
Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World

Author: Sue Peabody

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1319242073

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During the era of revolution, independence, and emancipation in the north Atlantic, slavery and freedom were fluid and contested concepts. Individuals and groups turned to courts of law to define and enforce the status of indigenous Americans, forcibly imported Africans, and colonizing Europeans -- and their progeny. Legal institutions of the state manufactured and mediated a new, dynamic concept of freedom, inventing categories of race and codifying white privilege. In this collection of documents from the French, British, Spanish, and Portuguese empires, Peabody and Grinberg introduce the voices of slaves, slave-holders, jurists, legislators, and others who struggled to critique, overturn, justify, or simply describe the social order in which they found themselves. Discussion questions, illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography allow students to analyze these rich documents and discern their lasting influences.

From Slavery to Freedom
From Slavery to Freedom

Author: Seymour Drescher

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-05-17

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1349148768

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The entries in this volume focus upon the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave system in comparative perspective. The subjects range from the rise of the slave trade in early modern Europe to a comparison of slave trade and the Holocaust of the twentieth century, dealing with both the history and historiography of slavery and abolition. They include essays on British, French, Dutch, and Brazilian abolition, as well as essays on the historiography of slavery and abolition since the publication of Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery more than fifty years ago.

Eighty-Eight Years
Eighty-Eight Years

Author: Patrick Rael

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2015-08-15

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0820348295

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Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a house divided against itself, as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide. Rael immerses readers in the mix of social, geographic, economic, and political factors that shaped this unique American experience. He not only takes a far longer view of slavery's demise than do those who date it to the rise of abolitionism in 1831, he also places it in a broader Atlantic context. We see how slavery ended variously by consent or force across time and place and how views on slavery evolved differently between the centers of European power and their colonial peripheries some of which would become power centers themselves. Rael shows how African Americans played the central role in ending slavery in the United States. Fueled by new Revolutionary ideals of self-rule and universal equality and on their own or alongside abolitionists, both slaves and free blacks slowly turned American opinion against the slave interests in the South. Secession followed, and then began the national bloodbath that would demand slavery's complete destruction.

The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade

Author: J. E. Inikori

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1992-04-30

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780822312437

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For review see: J.R. McNeill, in HAHR, 74, 1 (February 1994); p. 136-137.