The Slave Master Of Trinidad

Author : Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Publisher : UMass + ORM
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613766170

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The Slave Master of Trinidad by Selwyn R. Cudjoe Pdf

William Hardin Burnley (1780–1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone. In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's "founding father" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.

Author : A. Meredith John
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521361664

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The Plantation Slaves of Trinidad, 1783-1816 by A. Meredith John Pdf

This book aims to estimate the levels of plantation slave mortality and fertility in Trinidad.

Author : Noel Titus
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438985558

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The Amelioration and Abolition of Slavery in Trinidad, 1812 - 1834 by Noel Titus Pdf

As the Preface states, this book is a result of a research project for the History Department of the University of the West Indies. It is a work which sought to examine the way in which the slave policy of the British government was implemented in a new slave colony. Faced with recalcitrance on the part of the older West Indian colonies, the Colonial Office did not accord Trinidad an independent legislature because it felt it could more easily implement its slave policy. Trinidad proved to be no more compliant than the other colonies, and logistically was not easy to supervise. No study has previously been done of the slave process in Trinidad. A statistical analysis of the registration was undertaken by A. Meredith John in 1988. The present study is important because it has focussed on an area that needed to be examined, and one which illustrates that one cannot generalise on the West Indies. It shows how easily a policy can fail, if administrators are not in sync - as those in London were not during this seminal period. The baneful effects of the British experiments extended to persons like the free coloured and black people, who were on the periphery of the system, but who were materially affected by it. This book is significant because it fills a gap in knowledge about an important aspect of the island's history. It also affords an opportunity to look at the attempt to make changes in a society that, for the most part, was not English. As such it stands as a warning of the need to understand the cultures of those for whom systems are devised before they are imposed.

Author : Anthony De Verteuil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173020670237

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Seven Slaves and Slavery by Anthony De Verteuil Pdf

Author : Kurt C. Schaefer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532640650

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Husband, Wife, Father, Child, Master, Slave by Kurt C. Schaefer Pdf

When the New Testament speaks of slaves and masters, is it affirming an institution that we find reprehensible? Biblical scholars across the theological and political spectrum generally conclude that the answer is "yes." And in the same passages the Bible seems to affirm male dominance in marriage, if not in society at large. This book meticulously places these passages, the Bible's "household codes," in their historical and literary context, focusing on 1 Peter's extensive code. A careful side-by-side reading with Rome's cultural equivalent (Aristotle's household code) reveals both the brilliance of the biblical author and the depth of 1 Peter's antipathy toward slavery and misogyny.

Author : Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107328082

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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources by Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein Pdf

Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.

Author : Sebastian N. Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107141773

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Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page Pdf

The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.

Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469619491

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Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams Pdf

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674735361

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A Tale of Two Plantations by Richard S. Dunn Pdf

Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.

Author : Gelien Matthews
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131312

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Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement by Gelien Matthews Pdf

"Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831-32, Matthews identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery. She makes use of previously overlooked publications of British abolitionists to prove that their language changed over time in response to slave uprisings.".

Author : Chris Evans
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783161201

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Slave Wales by Chris Evans Pdf

Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such as woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in new industries or to be lavished on country mansions. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1650 and 1850, bringing the most up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh experience. New research by Chris Evans casts light on previously unknown episodes, such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in nineteenth-century Cuba, and illuminates in new and disturbing ways familiar features of Welsh history - like the woollen industry - that have previously unsuspected 'slave dimensions'. Many Welsh people turned against slavery in the late eighteenth century, but Welsh abolitionism was never a particularly powerful force. Indeed, Chris Evans demonstrates that Welsh participation the slave Atlantic lasted well beyond the abolition of Britain's slave trade in 1807 and the ending of slavery in Britain's Caribbean empire in 1834.

Author : Jeff Fynn-Paul,Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004356481

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Slaving Zones by Jeff Fynn-Paul,Damian Alan Pargas Pdf

Through engagement with the ‘Slaving Zones' theory, our authors elucidate new and complimentary ways in which identity, law, custom, political organization, and definitions of ‘self’ and ‘other’ have impacted the course of global slavery from ancient times through the present

Author : Bridget Brereton
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018204140

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A History of Modern Trinidad, 1783-1962 by Bridget Brereton Pdf

Geschiedenis van Trinidad en Tobago.

Author : Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176263

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The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva Pdf

This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898740

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Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire by Trevor Burnard Pdf

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.