Letters On West Africa And The Slave Trade

Author : Paul Erdmann Isert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025260459

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Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade by Paul Erdmann Isert Pdf

Isert's book, in the form of twelve letters evidently written for publication, has excited interest ever since it first appeared in 1788. Though Isert's text was long ago translated into other languages, this is its first translation from the original German into English. Already a respected botanist and medical doctor, Isert became interested in ethnography on his arrival in Accra. Isert also has a special place in West African history because of his attempt to establish a plantation on the Gold Coast to counteract the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Throughout his text Isert draws a clear and lively picture of life on the Gold and Slave Coasts of Africa and the Danish and French islands in the West Indies at the end of the eighteenth century.

Author : Axelrod Winsnes
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789988647568

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Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade. Paul Erdmann Iserts Journey to Guinea and the Carribean Islands in Columbis (178 by Axelrod Winsnes Pdf

Paul E. Isert, a Dane, arrived in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) in 1783, taking advantage of an opening in the slave trade between Guinea and the West Indies. He was appointed as chief surgeon to the Danish establishments on the Guinea Coast. In 1786 he sailed to the West Indies with a cargo of slaves, who revolted. His experiences in Ghana and the West Indies resolved him to end the trans-Atlantic slave abuse. This book is written in the form of letters to his father. An elusive character, it is clear that he nonetheless had an unreservedly positive attitude towards Africa and its indigenous peoples, and an equally negative attitude towards the Europeans on the Guinea coast. An admirer of Rousseau?s philosophy, he was concerned about the corrupting influence of the European ?civilisation? on the ?Blacks?. His writing attempts at objectivity, seeking to find the common humanity. He claims that the ?Black? was, at least equal to that of the ?European?,which was not shared by his Danish predecessors. This is the first English language edition of his original Danish letters, previously published in German, Dutch, French, and Swedish.

Author : William Wilberforce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : OXFORD:N12129450

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A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce Pdf

Author : George William Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001102319923

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Letters on the Slave-trade, Slavery, and Emancipation by George William Alexander Pdf

Author : William Wilberforce
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387090994

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A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire by William Wilberforce Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : William Wilberforce
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368926922

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A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce Pdf

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Author : Thomas Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : BL:A0024230943

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Letters on the Slave Trade by Thomas Cooper Pdf

Author : William Wilberforce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108024990

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A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce Pdf

This 1807 'letter', addressed to his constituents, summarises Wilberforce's arguments for the abolition of the slave trade.

Author : bart Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : OXFORD:N10559137

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Letter on the Slave Trade by bart Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Pdf

Author : Audra A. Diptee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9766379793

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Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship Pearl by Audra A. Diptee Pdf

Author : sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st bart.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590190102

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Letter on the slave trade, to the ... members of her majesty's cabinet council by sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st bart.) Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : BL:A0019527641

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Letter on the slave trade, to the Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the other members of Her Majesty's Cabinet Council by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Pdf

Author : Audra Diptee,David Vincent Trotman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9766379750

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Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship Pearl by Audra Diptee,David Vincent Trotman Pdf

"The barbarity of the enforced migration of Africans to the Caribbean and the realities of the transatlantic slave trade are fully revealed in Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship PEARL. The nonchalant accounts of the awful details of suffering and death are brought into sharp relief by the editors who reconstruct four voyages of the PEARL between 1785 and 1793. The ship was owned by Bristol businessman James Rogers, and the letters in this collection are but a small sample of the 15 boxes of correspondence comprising the Rogers papers held at The National Archives at Kew in the United Kingdom. Caribbean scholars who can scarcely access the original records are provided with a closer understanding of the complexities of slave trading. Written from several perspectives - the ship's doctor, the captains, slave traders on the African coast and Caribbean merchants - this assemblage offers a unique glimpse into the transatlantic slave trade. The letters, however, do not cover the perspective of the enslaved - muted and reduced to cargo, mentioned and recorded by number only. The book is divided into four parts for each of the selected voyages and each part is introduced with a short synopsis, each letter elucidated with explanatory notes. The work is enhanced by the inclusion of maps, tables and figures. Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship PEARL contextualises the continuing conversation of a painful past and is both enlightening and informative for the scholar, activist, and advocate alike."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Joseph John Gurney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Black people
ISBN : UIUC:30112077176821

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A Winter in the West Indies by Joseph John Gurney Pdf

Author : Toby Green
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241003282

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A Fistful of Shells by Toby Green Pdf

Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019 Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award 'Astonishing, staggering' Ben Okri, Daily Telegraph A groundbreaking new history that will transform our view of West Africa By the time of the 'Scramble for Africa' in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for many centuries. Its gold had fuelled the economies of Europe and Islamic world since around 1000, and its sophisticated kingdoms had traded with Europeans along the coasts from Senegal down to Angola since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies - most importantly shells: the cowrie shells imported from the Maldives, and the nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. Toby Green's groundbreaking new book transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa. It reconstructs the world of kingdoms whose existence (like those of Europe) revolved around warfare, taxation, trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, royal display and extravagance, and the production of art. Over time, the relationship between Africa and Europe revolved ever more around the trade in slaves, damaging Africa's relative political and economic power as the terms of monetary exchange shifted drastically in Europe's favour. In spite of these growing capital imbalances, longstanding contacts ensured remarkable connections between the Age of Revolution in Europe and America and the birth of a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa. A Fistful of Shells draws not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, on art, praise-singers, oral history, archaeology, letters, and the author's personal experience to create a new perspective on the history of one of the world's most important regions.