Fighting The Slave Trade

Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821441800

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Fighting the Slave Trade by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf

While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation. Fighting the Slave Trade is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It challenges widely held myths of African passivity and general complicity in the trade and shows that resistance to enslavement and to involvement in the slave trade was much more pervasive than has been acknowledged by the orthodox interpretation of historical literature. Focused on West Africa, the essays collected here examine in detail the defensive, protective, and offensive strategies of individuals, families, communities, and states. In chapters discussing the manipulation of the environment, resettlement, the redemption of captives, the transformation of social relations, political centralization, marronage, violent assaults on ships and entrepôts, shipboard revolts, and controlled participation in the slave trade as a way to procure the means to attack it, Fighting the Slave Trade presents a much more complete picture of the West African slave trade than has previously been available.

Author : Sylviane Anna Diouf
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821415160

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Fighting the Slave Trade by Sylviane Anna Diouf Pdf

Annotation Explores in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it.

Author : Sylviane Anna Diouf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : 1782049754

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Fighting the Slave Trade by Sylviane Anna Diouf Pdf

This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of slavery. North America: Ohio U Press...

Author : Manuel Barcia
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300215854

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The Yellow Demon of Fever by Manuel Barcia Pdf

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.

Author : Elliott Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : 1728452376

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The Slave Trade by Elliott Smith Pdf

"Slavery grew in America with the enslavement of indigenous peoples and millions of Africans. Learn about the Middle Passage and how the slave trade operated and was brought to its end"--

Author : Alfred James Swann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : 9780714618791

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Fighting the Slave-hunters in Central Africa by Alfred James Swann Pdf

Author : A.E. Rooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982128265

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The Black Joke by A.E. Rooks Pdf

"The most feared ship in Britain's West Africa Squadron, His Majesty's brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria's England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the ship's diverse crew and dedicated commanders would capture more ships and liberate more enslaved people than any other in the Squadron. Author A.E. Rooks chronicles the adventures on this ship and its crew in a narrative of the history of Britain's suppression efforts. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to the Black Joke and those that sailed with it as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. In this history of the daring feats of a single ship, the abolition of the international slave trade is revealed as an inexplicably extended exercise involving tense negotiations between many national powers, both colonizers and formerly colonized, that would stretch on for decades longer than it should have"--

Author : David Batstone
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062023728

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Not for Sale (Revised Edition) by David Batstone Pdf

“Human trafficking is not an issue of the left or right, blue states or red states, but a great moral tragedy we can unite to stop . . . Not for Sale is a must-read to see how you can join the fight.” —Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics “David Batstone is a heroic character.” —Bono In the revised and updated version of this harrowing yet deeply inspirational exposé, award-winning journalist David Batstone gives the most up-to-date information available on the $31 billion human trafficking epidemic. With profiles of twenty-first century abolitionists like Thailand’s Kru Nam and Peru’s Lucy Borja, Batstone tells readers what they can do to stop the modern slave trade. Like Kevin Bales’ Disposable People and Ending Slavery, or E. Benjamin Skinner’s A Crime So Monstrous, Batstone’s Not for Sale is an informative and necessary manifesto for universal freedom.

Author : Anthony Sullivan
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526717955

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Britain's War Against the Slave Trade by Anthony Sullivan Pdf

The true story of the Royal Navy’s sixty-year campaign to stop slavery across the British Empire, decades before the American Civil War. Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings, and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain’s somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa’s west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain’s decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron, which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy’s ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. In Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known campaign. Whereas Britain is usually, and justifiably, condemned for its earlier involvement in the slave trade, the truth is that in time the Royal Navy undertook a major and expensive operation to end what was, and is, an evil business.

Author : Ernest A. Bell
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498111521

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War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest A. Bell Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.

Author : Various,Ernest A. Bell
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1497304741

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War on the White Slave Trade by Various,Ernest A. Bell Pdf

War on the White Slave Trade - Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - The Greatest Crime in the World's History - Author: Various - Editor: Ernest A. Bell I am firmly convinced that when the people of this nation understand and fully appreciate the unspeakable villainy of "The White Slave Traffic" they will rise in their might and put a stop to it. The growth of this "trade in white women," as it has been officially designated by the Paris Conference, was so insidious that it reached the proportions of an international problem almost before the people of the civilized nations of the world learned of its existence. The traffic increased rapidly, owing largely to the fact that it was tremendously profitable to those depraved mortals who indulged in it, and because the people generally, until very recently, were ignorant of the fact that it was becoming so extensive. And even at this time, when a great deal has been said by the pulpit and the press about the horrors of the traffic, the public idea of just what is meant by the "white slave traffic" is confused and indefinite. It is my hope and belief that this work, edited by the scholarly and devoted Ernest A. Bell, whose life of toil for the wayward and the fallen has endeared him to all who know of him and his work, will do much to make the nature, scope and perils of this infamous trade better understood. The characteristic which distinguishes the white slave traffic from immorality in general is that the women who are the victims of the traffic are forced unwillingly to live an immoral life. The term "white slave" includes only those women and girls who are actually slaves—those women who are owned and held as property and chattels—whose lives are lives of involuntary servitude. The white slave trade may be said to be the business of securing white women and of selling them or exploiting them for immoral purposes. It includes those women and girls who, if given a fair chance, would, in all probability, have been good wives and mothers and useful citizens.

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664626219

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Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade by Various Pdf

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls is an early 20th-century book on the campaign against prostitution. It was written and edited by a Chicago minister and features articles from a Chicago District attorney, several ministers, social workers, and others active in the campaign against "the white slave trade." The purpose o the campaign was to oppose the recruitment of young girls into prostitution.

Author : Paul L. Dawson
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399018494

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The Battle Against Slavery by Paul L. Dawson Pdf

On 13 December 1776, the Rev. William Turner preached the first avowedly anti-slavery sermon in the North of England. Copies of his sermon were distributed far and wide – in so doing, he had fired the first shot in the battle to end slavery had begun. Four years later, Rev. Turner, members of his congregation and the Rev. Christopher Wyvill founded ‘The Yorkshire Association’ to agitate for political and social reform. The Association sought universal suffrage, annual parliaments and the abolition of slavery. In the West Riding, despite furious opposition, by 1783 nearly 10,000 signatures were collected in support of the aims of the Association. Slavery, or rather its abolition, was now on the political agenda. The Battle Against Slavery charts the story of a group of West Riding radicals in their bid to abolish slavery both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Such became the influence of this group, whose Unitarian beliefs were illegal in Britain, that the general election of 1806 in Yorkshire was fought on an abolitionist platform. At a time when the rest of the world engaged in slavery, this small body was fighting almost single-handedly to end such practices. Gradually, their beliefs began to spread across the country and across the Channel to France, the principles of which found resonance during the French Revolution and even across the Atlantic to America. At a time, today, when the history of slavery is the subject of considerable debate worldwide, this revealing insight into the abolitionist movement, which demonstrates how ordinary men and women battled against governments and the establishment, needs to be told. The Battle Against Slavery adds an important dimension to the continuing debate over Britain’s, and other nations’, involvement in the slave trade and demonstrates how the determination of just a few right-minded people can change world opinion forever.

Author : Ernest Albert Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN : OCLC:81767943

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Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls ; Or, War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest Albert Bell Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9355893272

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Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade by Various Pdf

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.