A short history of transatlantic slavery / Kenneth Morgan.
2016
HT1321 .M674 2016
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Title
A short history of transatlantic slavery / Kenneth Morgan.
Variant Title
Transatlantic slavery
ISBN
9781780763866
9780857728524 (e-book)
9780857728524 (e-book)
Published
London ; New York, New York : I.B. Tauris, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 239 pages) : illustrations, map.
Call Number
HT1321 .M674 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.896018210903
Summary
"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."
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Includes index.
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I.B. Tauris short histories.
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