Free At Last Reflections On Freedom And The Abolition Of The British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Author : Cecily Jones,Amar Nahab
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443831130

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Free at Last? Reflections on Freedom and the Abolition of the British Transatlantic Slave Trade by Cecily Jones,Amar Nahab Pdf

The global commemorative events of 2007 that marked the bicentennial anniversary of the parliamentary abolition of the African slave trade provided opportunity for widespread discussion between politicians, community groups, museums and heritage organisations, the clergy, and scholars, as to the meanings of colonial and post-colonial freedom. As was evident from the tensions emerging from those debates, the subject of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery remains highly charged, as does the extent to which its legacy of racism, predicated on theoretical assumptions of European cultural, social, political and economic superiority, continues to maintain and reproduce complex systems of inequalities between peoples and societies. Free at Last? is an edited collection of interdisciplinary perspectives that critically reflects on the struggles of enslaved peoples and anti-slavery activists to effect the abolition of the British slave trade, as well as the post-abolition global legacies of those diverse struggles for equality. The chapters bring together multiple narratives and discourses about the British abolition to reflect critically and comparatively on: the boundaries between slavery and freedom; the contestations and championing of freedom; and the legacies of slavery and abolition in the contemporary context.

Author : Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195176292

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The Mighty Experiment by Seymour Drescher Pdf

In this work Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. He explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground.

Author : Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349148769

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From Slavery to Freedom by Seymour Drescher Pdf

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.

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Jackson : University Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010584808

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England, Slaves, and Freedom, 1776-1838 by James Walvin Pdf

Looking at the wider history of human bondage from classical antiquity to the granting of freedom in the last century, this book's main purpose is to describe the evolution, progress and ending of black slavery with all its manifold repercussions on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Swithin R. Wilmot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 9766373892

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Freedom by Swithin R. Wilmot Pdf

"The European-driven transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the largest forced movement of human beings in history. Over 15 million Africans were shipped to the New World and another 5 million died in captivity over a period of 250 years. The bicentenary of the abolition of the British Transatlantic Trade in Africans for enslavement was commemorated in 2007 and the University of the West Indies Mona campus marked the anniversary by making the bicentenary the focus of its annual Mona Academic Conference on the theme Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective. This volume represents an edited collection of papers that were delivered at the 2007 conference. Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective examines the historical experience of slavery that has helped to shape the Caribbean and its contemporary challenges. In this volume, the contributions both academic and personal, reflect on various aspects of memorialisation; reparations; capitalism and slavery; sovereignty; globalization and trade liberalization; education and gender; freedom and development; migration and Diaspora. "

Author : J. R. Oldfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124051348

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Chords of Freedom by J. R. Oldfield Pdf

How should Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? Chords of Freedom sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed into the nation's collective memory. It offers valuable new insights into the way in which a "culture of abolition" took root in Britain, and how views of transatlantic slavery and figures like William Wilberforce have been revised and amended to reflect the changing demands of a series of "present days". Its cross-disciplinary approach will appeal to a broad spectrum of specialists, as well as to undergraduates and postgraduates.

Author : Justin Iverson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820368269

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Rebels in Arms by Justin Iverson Pdf

Enslaved Black people took up arms and fought in nearly every colonial conflict in early British North America. They sometimes served as loyal soldiers to protect and promote their owners’ interests in the hope that they might be freed or be rewarded for their service. But for many Black combatants, war and armed conflict offered an opportunity to attack the chattel slave system itself and promote Black emancipation and freedom. In six cases, starting in 1676 with Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia and ending in 1865 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment near Charleston, Rebels in Arms tells the long story of how enslaved soldiers and Maroons learned how to use military service and armed conflict to fight for their own interests. Justin Iverson details a different conflict in each chapter, illuminating the participation of Black soldiers. Using a comparative Atlantic analysis that uncovers new perspectives on major military conflicts in British North American history, he reveals how enslaved people used these conflicts to lay the groundwork for abolition in 1865. Over the nearly two-hundred-year history of these struggles, enslaved resistance in the British Atlantic world became increasingly militarized, and enslaved soldiers, Maroons, and plantation rebels together increasingly relied on military institutions and operations to achieve their goals.

Author : Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482269

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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century by Tanya M. Caldwell Pdf

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy.

Author : Cliff Roberson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351002684

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Routledge Handbook of Social, Economic, and Criminal Justice by Cliff Roberson Pdf

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system. It critically discusses key concerns involved in realizing economic and social justice, including systemic issues in economic and social justice, issues related to organizations and social institutions, special issues regarding specific populations, and a review of national and international organizations that promote economic justice. Addressing more than just the ideology and theory underlying economic and social justice, the book presents chapters with practical examples and research on how economic and social justice might be achieved within the criminal justice systems of the world. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this book is an essential reference for scholars with an interest in economic and social justice from a wide range of disciplines, including criminal justice and criminology as well as sociology, social work, public policy, and law.

Author : Michael Craton,James Walvin,David Wright
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4362968

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Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation by Michael Craton,James Walvin,David Wright Pdf

Author : Marta Fernández Campa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030721350

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Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture by Marta Fernández Campa Pdf

This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records. This refiguration opens a critical space and retells stories and histories previously occluded in/by those records, and in spaces of the public sphere. Through poetics and aesthetics of fragmentation largely influenced by music and popular culture, their work encourages contrapuntal ways of (re)thinking histories; ways that interrogate the influence of colonial narratives in processes of silencing but also centre the knowledge found in oral histories and other forms of artistic archives outside official repositories. Discussing literature and selected artwork by artists from Britain, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture demonstrates the historiographical significance of artistic and cultural production.

Author : Robin Runia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031120787

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Maria Edgeworth and Abolition by Robin Runia Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworth’s representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character – one that she invites readers to use on themselves. Over the course of her career, Edgeworth repeatedly indicted hypocritical and hyperbolic misappropriation of the sentimental rhetoric that dominated the slavery debate. This book offers new readings of canonical Edgeworth texts as well as of largely neglected works, including: Whim for Whim, “The Good Aunt”, Belinda, “The Grateful Negro”, “The Two Guardians”, and Harry and Lucy Continued. It also offers an unprecedented deep-dive into an important Romantic Era woman writer’s engagement with discourses of slavery and abolition.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002779

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Legacies of slavery by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634449

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Children of Uncertain Fortune by Daniel Livesay Pdf

By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.

Author : Thomas Clarkson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : OXFORD:501601824

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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament by Thomas Clarkson Pdf