Slavery Atlantic Trade And The British Economy 1660 1800

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316583814

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Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660–1800 by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development in the generations between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and the era of the Younger Pitt. During this period Britain's trade became 'Americanised' and industrialisation began to occur in the domestic economy. The slave trade and the broader patterns of Atlantic commerce contributed important dimensions of British economic growth although they were more significant for their indirect, qualitative contribution than for direct quantitative gains. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521588146

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Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

This book considers the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development during the beginning of British industrialization. Kenneth Morgan investigates five key areas within the topic that have been subject to historical debate: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development; exports and transatlantic markets; the role of business institutions; and the contribution of Atlantic trade to the growth of British ports. This stimulating and accessible book provides essential reading for students of slavery and the slave trade, and British economic history.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857728555

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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara L. Solow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521457378

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Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System by Barbara L. Solow Pdf

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.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820327913

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Slavery in America by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of time--from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War. The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America. Each of the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses the leading secondary books and articles on the topic in question, followed by an essay and three primary documents. Questions for further study and discussion are included in the chapter introduction, while further readings are suggested in the chapter bibliography. Topics covered include slave culture, the slave-based economy, slavery and the law, slave resistance, pro-slavery ideology, abolition, and emancipation. The essays, by such eminent historians as Drew Gilpin Faust, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, and Sylvia R. Frey, have been selected for their teaching value and ability to provoke discussion. Drawing on black and white, male and female experiences, the primary documents come from a wide variety of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travelers’ accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions, and novels.

Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195364811

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Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis Pdf

This watershed study is the first to consider in concrete terms the consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Why did Britain pull out of the slave trade just when it was becoming important for the world economy and the demand for labor around the world was high? Caught between the incentives offered by the world economy for continuing trade at full tilt and the ideological and political pressures from its domestic abolitionist movement, Britain chose to withdraw, believing, in part, that freed slaves would work for low pay which in turn would lead to greater and cheaper products. In a provocative new thesis, historian David Eltis here contends that this move did not bolster the British economy; rather, it vastly hindered economic expansion as the empire's control of the slave trade and its great reliance on slave labor had played a major role in its rise to world economic dominance. Thus, for sixty years after Britain pulled out, the slave economies of Africa and the Americas flourished and these powers became the dominant exporters in many markets formerly controlled by Britain. Addressing still-volatile issues arising from the clash between economic and ideological goals, this global study illustrates how British abolitionism changed the tide of economic and human history on three continents.

Author : Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781509552702

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Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution by Maxine Berg,Pat Hudson Pdf

The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson ‘follow the money’ to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people. The result is a bold and unflinching account of how Britain became a global superpower, and how the legacy of slavery persists. Acknowledging Britain’s role in slavery is not just about toppling statues and renaming streets. We urgently need to come to terms with slavery’s inextricable links with Western capitalism, and the ways in which many of us continue to benefit from slavery to this day.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054149029

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Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607-1800 by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

A textbook introduction to one of the most important areas of early American history.Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labour systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout overriding themes emerge: the labour market in North America, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labour, and resistance to bondage.This is an ideal introduction to an area that is crucial for understanding not just Colonial American society but also the later development of the United States.

Author : Richard Nelson Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036153307

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The British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1650-1775 by Richard Nelson Bean Pdf

Author : Barbara L. Solow
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739192474

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The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Barbara L. Solow Pdf

The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean, and was an important determinant of the timing and pattern of the Industrial Revolution in England. The new industrial economy was no longer dependent on slavery for development, but rested instead on investment and innovation. Solow argues that abolition of the slave trade and emancipation should be understood in this context.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317554554

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The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History by Jeremy Black Pdf

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.

Author : J. E. Inikori,Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0822312433

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The Atlantic Slave Trade by J. E. Inikori,Stanley L. Engerman Pdf

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

Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351899772

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Slave Trades, 1500–1800 by Patrick Manning Pdf

The trade in slaves is perhaps the most notorious feature of the era of European expansion. Though begun in ancient times, and continued well after 1800, in the early modern period there developed a particular nexus in which it boomed. This volume distinguishes between procurement and trade, and the exploitation of settled slaves (the subject of a separate volume in the series, edited by Judy Bieber), and underscores the importance of the slave trade as a factor in world history. A rank redistribution of wealth and power, it permitted the exploitation and reconstruction of much of the globe. The articles address issues of the volume and flow of trade, the various populations enslaved, factors of sex, age, and ethnicity, and its impact on economic change, as in the monetization of Africa or economic growth in England.

Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0820352543

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Slavery in America by Kenneth Morgan Pdf

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of time--from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War. The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America. Each of the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses the leading secondary books and articles on the topic in question, followed by an essay and three primary documents. Questions for further study and discussion are included in the chapter introduction, while further readings are suggested in the chapter bibliography. Topics covered include slave culture, the slave-based economy, slavery and the law, slave resistance, pro-slavery ideology, abolition, and emancipation. The essays, by such eminent historians as Drew Gilpin Faust, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin, and Sylvia R. Frey, have been selected for their teaching value and ability to provoke discussion. Drawing on black and white, male and female experiences, the primary documents come from a wide variety of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travelers' accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions, and novels.

Author : Nuala Zahedieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521514231

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The Capital and the Colonies by Nuala Zahedieh Pdf

This book describes how the mercantile system was made to work as London established itself as the capital of the Atlantic empire.