The Business Of Slave Trading

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Business of Slave Trading by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn,Calvin Schermerhorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300192001

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 by Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn,Calvin Schermerhorn Pdf

"Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up around trade in slaves and products made by slaves.

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780232041

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Crossings by James Walvin Pdf

We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing on the subject has focused on the European traders and the arrival of slaves in North America. In Crossings, eminent historian James Walvin covers these established territories while also traveling back to the story’s origins in Africa and south to Brazil, an often forgotten part of the triangular trade, in an effort to explore the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic. Reconstructing the transatlantic slave trade from an extensive archive of new research, Walvin seeks to understand and describe how the trade began in Africa, the terrible ordeals experienced there by people sold into slavery, and the scars that remain on the continent today. Journeying across the ocean, he shows how Brazilian slavery was central to the development of the slave trade itself, as that country tested techniques and methods for trading and slavery that were successfully exported to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas in the following centuries. Walvin also reveals the answers to vital questions that have never before been addressed, such as how a system that the Western world came to despise endured so long and how the British—who were fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade—became the most prominent proponents of its eradication. The most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, Crossings offers a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history.

Author : Caitlin Rosenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674241657

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Accounting for Slavery by Caitlin Rosenthal Pdf

Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.

Author : Herman L. Bennett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812295498

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African Kings and Black Slaves by Herman L. Bennett Pdf

A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler. In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals, establish treaties, and negotiate trade practices with autonomous territories. And he shows how Iberians based their interpretations of African sovereignty on medieval European political precepts grounded in Roman civil and canon law. In the eyes of Iberians, the extent to which Africa's polities conformed to these norms played a significant role in determining who was, and who was not, a sovereign people—a judgment that shaped who could legitimately be enslaved. Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves' experiences in the Americas.

Author : Joshua D. Rothman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541616592

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The Ledger and the Chain by Joshua D. Rothman Pdf

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade—and its role in the making of America. Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South—were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.

Author : Saul Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351510769

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Jews and the American Slave Trade by Saul Friedman Pdf

The Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews has been called one of the most serious anti-Semitic manuscripts published in years. This work of so-called scholars received great celebrity from individuals like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard Jeffries, and Khalid Abdul Muhammed who used the document to claim that Jews dominated both transatlantic and antebellum South slave trades. As Saul Friedman definitively documents in Jews and the American Slave Trade, historical evidence suggests that Jews played a minimal role in the transatlantic, South American, Caribbean, and antebellum slave trades.Jews and the American Slave Trade dissects the questionable historical technique employed in Secret Relationship, offers a detailed response to Farrakhan's charges, and analyzes the impetus behind these charges. He begins with in-depth discussion of the attitudes of ancient peoples, Africans, Arabs, and Jews toward slavery and explores the Jewish role hi colonial European economic life from the Age of Discovery tp Napoleon. His state-by-state analyses describe in detail the institution of slavery in North America from colonial New England to Louisiana. Friedman elucidates the role of American Jews toward the great nineteenth-century moral debate, the positions they took, and explains what shattered the alliance between these two vulnerable minority groups in America.Rooted in incontrovertible historical evidence, provocative without being incendiary, Jews and the American Slave Trade demonstrates that the anti-slavery tradition rooted in the Old Testament translated into powerful prohibitions with respect to any involvement in the slave trade. This brilliant exploration will be of interest to scholars of modern Jewish history, African-American studies, American Jewish history, U.S. history, and minority studies.

Author : Emma Christopher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299316204

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Freedom in White and Black by Emma Christopher Pdf

A gripping true account of African slaves and white slavers whose fates are seemingly reversed, shedding fascinating light on the early development of the nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Australia, and on the role of former slaves in combatting the illegal trade.

Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476737454

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The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas Pdf

After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time, but to answer controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated.

Author : Gregory E. O'Malley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469615349

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Final Passages by Gregory E. O'Malley Pdf

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Author : Josep M. Fradera,Christopher Schmidt-Nowara†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857459343

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Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire by Josep M. Fradera,Christopher Schmidt-Nowara† Pdf

African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain's role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade.

Author : Judith Jennings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317791867

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The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807 by Judith Jennings Pdf

This study presents new information about the four Quaker businessmen who helped found the London Abolition Committee in 1787 and remained active in the late anti-slave trade movement throughout their lifetimes. Drawing on previously unused primary sources, the study traces the close personal, business, social and religious ties binding the men together and shaping their abolition activities and arguments. By closely examining the lives of Joseph Woods, James Philips, George Harrison and Samuel Hoare, the study presents a new view of the factors shaping the arguments and strategies of abolitionism in Britain.

Author : Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789766373061

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Trading Souls by Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd Pdf

"The Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) has no equal in the annals of modern history in terms of the scope and depth of suffering experienced by its victims, mostly at the hands of European traders and enslavers. Yet, denial and silence continue to surround this human tragedy. Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd, two of the Caribbean's most distinguished historians, make extensive use of the research by scholars from Europe, Africa and the Americas to describe the trade and analyse its impact on African, European and Caribbean societies in language and style that makes the information accessible and comprehensible for school students and the general reader. Readers will gain an appreciation of: The role of slavery from ancient to modern times and its development in African societies  The contribution of African scholars and intellectuals in the pre-slavery period and how the trade bled the continent of valuable intellectual and technical resources  The instution of slavery from an economic perspective, through an examination of the business aspects of the development of the TTA  The physical and psychological consequences of the Middle Passage on Africans  The trade in Africans as a business with examples of companies, individuals and nations that were active participants  The contributions of the TTA to the economic development of the West and the underdevelopment of African societies. Trading Souls, like its companion volume Saving Souls, is a reflection upon a history that was terrible and turbulent and tries to make sense of the silence and denial even as it seeks to break it. "

Author : Robert Louis Stein
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035779185

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The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century by Robert Louis Stein Pdf

Author : Jeff Forret
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493031

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Williams' Gang by Jeff Forret Pdf

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.