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The slave trade : the story of the Atlantic slave trade, 1440-1870 / by Thomas, Hugh,1931-; Mazal Holocaust Collection.TxSaTAM; Rogers D. Spotswood Collection.TxSaTAM;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 812-862) and index.pt. 1. Green Sea of Darkness: What heart could be so hard? -- Humanity is divided into two -- The slaves who find the gold are all black -- The Portuguese served for setting dogs to spring the game -- I herded them as if they had been cattle -- The best and strongest slaves available -- For the love of God, give us a pair of slave women -- The white men arrived in ships with wings -- pt. 2. The Internationalization of the Trade: A good correspondence with the blacks -- The black slave is the basis of the hacienda -- Lawful to set to sea -- He who knows how to supple the slaves will share his wealth -- pt. 3. Apogee: No nation has plunged so deeply into this guilt as Great Britain -- By the grace of God -- pt. 4. The Crossing: A filthy voyage -- Great pleasure from our wine -- Slave harbors I -- Slave harbors II -- A great strait for slaves -- The blackest sort with short curled hair -- If you want to learn how to pray, go to sea -- God knows what we shall do with those that remain -- pt. 5. Abolition: Above all a good soul -- The loudest yelps for liberty -- The gauntlet had been thrown down -- Men in Africa of as fine feeling as ourselves -- Why should we see Great Britain getting all the slave trade? -- pt. 6. The Illegal Era: I see ... we have not yet begun the golden age -- The slaver is more criminal than the assassin -- Only the poor speak ill of the slave trade -- Active exertions -- Slave harbors of the nineteenth century -- Sharks are the invariable outriders of all slave ships -- Can we resist the torrent? I think not -- They all eagerly desire it, protect it and almost sanctify it -- Cuba, the forward sentinel -- Epilogue: The slave trade: a reflection -- Appendix 1: Some who lived to tell the tale -- Appendix 2: The trial of Pedro José de Zulueta in London for trading in slaves -- Appendix 3: Estimated statistics -- Appendix 4: Selected prices of slaves 1440-1870 -- Appendix 5: The voyage of the Enterprize.Chronicles the history of the African slave trade by Portugal, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States, from the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, through the abolitionist movements, to the final days of the trade in Cuba and Brazil. Includes who the slavers and abolitionists were, how profitable the business was, the African rulers and peoples who collaborated, the towns which grew rich on the trade, and more.
Subjects: Slave trade;
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The Atlantic slave trade / by Klein, Herbert S.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Slavery in Western development -- American labor demand -- Africa at the time of the Atlantic slave trade -- The European organization of the slave trade -- The African organization of the slave trade -- The middle passage -- Social and cultural impact of the slave trade on America -- The end of the slave trade."This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East African experiences, as well as all the American colonies and republics that obtained slaves from Africa. It outlines both the common features of this trade and the local differences that developed. It discusses the slave trade's economics, politics, demographic impact, and cultural implications in relationship to Africa as well as America. Finally, it places the slave trade in the context of world trade and examines the role it played in the growing relationship between Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. This new edition incorporates the latest findings of the last decade in slave trade studies carried out in Europe and America. It also includes new data on the slave trade voyages which have justrecently been made available to the public"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Slave trade; Slave trade; Slave trade;
© 2010., Cambridge University Press,
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Ten Hills Farm : the forgotten history of slavery in the North / by Manegold, C. S.(Catherine S.),1955-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-304) and index.The Puritan. The land -- Ten Hills Farm -- Possession -- The immigrant. The king's forester -- Favors to the few -- Happy instruments to enlarge our dominions -- Slavers of the North -- Come up in the night with them -- You may own negroes and negresses -- The master. Antigua -- Crime, punishment, and compensation -- Homecoming -- The benefactor -- Luxury on the grandest scale -- The petitioner. We shall not be slaves -- Within the bowels of a free country -- Death is not the worst of evils -- Reparations -- The legacy. City upon a hill -- Afterword: Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008."Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers, to the Royalls--all prominent dynasties tied to the Native American and Atlantic slave trades. In this mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fortunes of these families--and the fate of Ten Hills Farm--were bound to America's most tragic and tainted legacy. Manegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farm--from John Usher, who was born into money, to Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter's son and made his fortune in Antigua--would depend upon slavery's profits until the 1780s, when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time, the land became a city, its questionable past discreetly buried, until now. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery." -- from publisher's website.
Subjects: Slavery; Slave trade; Slaves;
© c2010., Princeton University Press,
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Shipwrecked : A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade / by White, Jonathan W.,1979-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Ship captains; Blockade.; Escapes.;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=30699232 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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The making of African America : the four great migrations / by Berlin, Ira,1941-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index.A four-hundred-year history of the African-American experience traces four pivotal migrations, including the violent relocation of one million slaves to the antebellum South and the movement of millions to industrial cities a century later.Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos. -- From publisher description.Movement and place in the African American past -- The transatlantic passage -- The passage to the interior -- The passage to the north -- Global passages.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Slave trade; Migration, Internal;
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Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market / by Johnson, Walter,1967-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-273) and index.
Subjects: Slaves; Slave trade; African Americans; Slaveholders; Slave trade; Slaveholders; Slaves; African Americans;
© c1999., Harvard University Press,
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The Black history book / by Blyden, Nemata Amelia,1964-contributor,editor.; Akpan, Paula,contributor.; Harper, Mireille,1995-contributor.; Lockhart, Keith,contributor.; Maddox, Tyesha,contributor.; Njoku, Raphael Chijioke,contributor.; Pepera, Luke,contributor.; Swainston, George,contributor.; Walker, Robin,1967-contributor.; Wilson, Jamie Jaywann,contributor.; Olusoga, David,writer of foreword.; Graham, James(Illustrator),illustrator.; Limerick, Anthony,illustrator.; Dorling Kindersley, Inc.;
Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world.With profiles of key people, movements, and events, The Black History Book brings together accounts of the most significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture. This vital and thought-provoking book presents a bold and accessible overview of the history of the African continent and its peoples - from the earliest human migrations to modern Black communities and the African diaspora. Powerful images and innovative infographics bring to life the stories of the early kingdoms of Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and Carthage; the powerful empires of the Medieval and Early Modern eras; and the struggle against European colonizers. Black history and culture beyond the African continent is also explored in detail - including the Atlantic Slave Trade; the quilombos (slave resistance camps) of Brazil; the Harlem Renaissance and Jazz Age; the "Windrush" migration; Civil Rights and Black feminist movements; and Black Lives Matter. Using the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, The Black History Book examines the achievements and struggles of Black communities across the world up to the modern day, as well as the influence of Black cultures on art, literature, and music the world over. --Introduction -- Prehistory and ancient history, before 1 CE ; Africa, the mother of humanity: The first humans ; We were all Africans: Humans migrate out of Africa ; The crucible of ancient Egyptian civilization: Predynastic Egypt ; The gift of the Nile: Egypt's Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms ; The land of the bow: The Nubian kingdom of Kerma ; A dispersal of language: The Bantu migrations ; The richest city of antiquity: Ancient seafarers settle Carthage ; One bright blaze turns learning into air: The lost library of Alexandria ; Carthage must be destroyed: The Romans reach Africa -- Empire and expansion, 1-800 CE ; The third great kingdom on Earth: The trading empire of Aksum ; Devotion under persecution: Christianity reaches Africa ; Ghana, the land of gold: The Ghana Empire ; We have conquered Alexandria: The Muslim conquest of Egypt ; The endless journey: The trans-Saharan slave trade ; The people of the coast: The rise of Swahili city-states ; Masters of every art and industry: The Moors in Al-Andalus -- Faith and trade, 800-1510 ; The Zanj called one another to arms: The Zanj slave rebellion ; The daughters of my dispersed ones: The Ethiopian Jews ; All the kingdoms obey its king: The origins of the Songhai Empire ; A unique African civilization: The city of Great Zimbabwe ; We are people of the desert: Ghana converts to Islam ; The crossroads of Africa, the cradle of Islam: The Kanem Empire ; The enchanted holy city: The beginnings of Benin ; The miracles of Lalibela: Ethiopia's rock churches ; Mali will never be in thrall: The Mali Empire ; The people who pray in it will bless your name: The Great Mosque is founded at Djenné ; A mission to spread the light of Islam: The sultanate of Ifat ; All birds will flock to a fruitful tree: Europeans arrive in Africa ; The blue men form the Sahel: The city-states of Hausaland ; They follow where their animals go: The migration of the Maasai ; The mastery of technology and art: The great bronzes of Benin ; Commerce, not conquest: Ming China trades with East Africa ; Fostered and powered here: Blackamoors in Tudor England ; The quest for an African El Dorado: The gold trade in Mozambique ; Our kingdom is being lost: The manikongo succession -- Enslavement and rebellion, 1510-1700 ; A stain on the fabric of human history: The birth of the Atlantic slave trade ; Sick or well, it was work, work, work: Life on the plantations ; America's first slave revolt: The slave rebellion in Hispaniola ; A bloody rebellion in the sugar fields: Enslaved people rise up in Mexico ; Warrior villages: Brazil's slave resistance camps ; The lady of thunder: Queen Nzinga takes on Portugal ; We are kin, and we are free: The Jamaican Maroons ; From heaven in a cloud of white dust: The birth of the Asante Empire ; The rock that is unharmed by the hoe: Changamire Dombo and his army of "Destroyers" ; Race is a human invention: The creation of "race"Revolution and resistance, 1700-1900 ; We were never enslaved: The Garifuna ; Remarkable for their courage and ferocity: The warrior women of Dahomey ; Slaves have no right to property: Louisiana's Code Noir ; Am I not a man and a brother?: Abolitionism in Europe ; What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?: Abolitionism in the Americas ; The dead will rise to drive the white man out: The Xhosa Wars ; To send the Africans to their native quarter: The founding of Sierra Leone ; Independence or death: The Haitian Revolution ; The weary travelers flying from the land of bondage: The Underground Railroad ; The bright swords of Quranic verses: The Fulani conquest ; Up! Children of Zulu: The Zulu Empire ; Land of the free: The settlement of Liberia ; White spirits and Black spirits engaged in battle: Nat Turner's revolt ; Exchanged for cloths and beads: The Zanzibar slave trade ; Men of color, to arms!: The war to end slavery ; The price of the disaster of slavery: The golden age of Reconstruction ; Exploiting the land and its resources: The gold rush in Botswana ; We are now part of Europe: The construction of the Suez Canal ; Separate but equal: Jim Crow ; Divide and rule: The scramble for Africa ; The golden law: The ending of slavery in Brazil ; The conquering lions of Abyssinia: Ethiopia defies colonialism -- Decolonization and diasporas, (1900-present) ; A United States of Africa: Pan-Africanism ; The water of life: The Maji Maji uprising ; For Black people by Black people: Black Wall Street ; The voice of the race: Brazil's Black movements ; Young, gifted, and Black: The Harlem Renaissance ; The eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul: The Jazz Age ; We demand to be citizens: Black movements in France ; Was your mother counted?: The Women's War of 1929 ; A Black king will be crowned: The Rastafari movement ; We were wearing the same uniform: Black combatants in World War II ; They tell you it is the mother country: The Windrush migration ; There is no easy road to freedom: Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement ; We don't want war, we want justice: The Mau Mau uprising ; Why should our children have to travel so far to school?: Brown v. Board of Education ; Let the people see: The lynching of Emmett Till ; The only tired I was, was tired of giving in: The Montgomery bus boycott ; Ghana is free forever!: Ghana declares independence ; This is a new day in Africa: The Year of Africa ; No gender justice without racial justice: The rise of Black feminism ; I have a dream: The March on Washington ; Independence has come: "Zik" and independent Nigeria ; A new society must be born: The Black Power movement ; Denying race means denying reality: Color-blind policies in France ; I came, I saw, I conquered. That's a ball: Ball culture in the United States ; Enough is enough: The Brixton uprisings ; We are not sure the police are there to protect us: The police assault on Rodney King ; Zero tolerance of racism: The Macpherson Report ; We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed: The Rwandan genocide ; African renaissance is around the corner: The African economic boom ; Yes, we can!: The election of Barack Obama ; Black Lives Matter: Global antiracism campaigns ; Our ancestors live with us: The African diaspora today.
Subjects: Black people; African diaspora; Slave trade; Decolonization; Culture; Civil rights;
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American slavery : a very short introduction / by Williams, Heather Andrea.;
"This short introduction to American slavery begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and, drawing upon the scholarship of numerous historians as well as the analysis of primary documents, explores the development of slavery in the American colonies and later, the United States of America. It analyzes early legislation in Virginia that differentiated Indians and Africans from Europeans and began the process of stratifying society based on racial categories. Unlike some recent scholarship, it is attentive to the actual labor that enslaved people performed, reminding us that more than anything else, slavery was a system of forced labor that produced wealth for a new nation. And, it considers the tensions that arose between enslaved and enslavers as they interacted with one another, exerting control and undermining efforts at domination. Throughout, it explores slavery within the context of moral contradiction that included the development of an ideology that valorized freedom alongside a practice and justification of slavery that deemed inferior and denied freedom to a large swath of the population. The book explores conflicts between abolitionists who worked to eliminate slavery and pro-slavery advocates who worked doggedly to sustain the power and wealth they derived from the institution. It ends with the abolition of slavery in America following the Civil War"--Includes bibliographical references and index.The Atlantic slave trade -- Putting slavery into place -- The work of slavery -- Struggles for control -- Surviving slavery -- Taking slavery apart -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Slavery;
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Sugar : a bittersweet history / by Abbott, Elizabeth,1942-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-440) and index.The Oriental delight conquers the West. The reign of sugar begins ; The proletarianization of sugar -- Black sugar. The Africanization of the cane fields ; The world the Whites made ; Sugar stirs the universe -- Abolition through resistance and parliament. Racism, resistance, rebellion and revolution ; Blood in the sugar : abolishing the slave trade ; Slaying monsters : slavery and apprenticeship ; Cuba and Louisiana : sugar for North America -- The sweetening world. The sugar diasporas ; Meet and eat me in St. Louis! ; Sugar's legacies and prospects."Sugar" offers a compelling and surprising look at the sweet commodity, from the ways in which it Africanized the cane fields of the Caribbean to how it fueled the Industrial Revolution and jump-started the fast-food craze.Legacy
Subjects: Sugar; Sugar; Sugar trade; Sugar trade; Sugar trade; Sugar;
© 2010., Duckworth Overlook,
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The history of White people / by Painter, Nell Irvin.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-456) and index.Introduction -- Greeks and scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Germani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The White beauty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names White people "caucasian" -- Germaine de staèl's German lessons -- Early American White people observed -- The first alien wave -- The education of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- English traits -- Emerson in the history of American White people -- The American school of anthropology -- The second enlargement of American whiteness -- William Z. Ripley and the races of Europe -- Franz Boas, dissenter -- Roosevelt, Ross, and race suicide -- The discovery of degenerate families -- From degenerate families to sterilization -- Intelligence testing of new immigrants -- The great unrest -- The melting pot a failure? -- Anthroposociology : the science of alien races -- Refuting racial science -- A new White race politics -- The third enlargement of American whiteness -- Black nationalism and White ethnics -- The fourth great enlargement of American whiteness.Historian Painter centers her momentous study of racial classification on the slave trade and the nation-building efforts which dominated the United States in the 18th century, when thinkers led by Ralph Waldo Emerson strove to explain the rapid progress of America within the context of white superiority. Her research is filled with frequent, startling realizations about how tenuous and temporary our racial classifications really are.
Subjects: Whites; Whites;
© c2010., W.W. Norton,
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