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Books on: slave trading

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Slave Trading in the Old South

Book by Frederic Bancroft; Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1959

Subjects:

Slave Trade--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

SLAVE TRADING IN THE OLD SOUTH A SLAVE-AUCTION IN...by Eyre Crowe AMERICAN CLASSICS SLAVE TRADING IN THE OLD SOUTH FREDERIC BANCROFT...II. EARLY DOMESTIC SLAVE-TRADING 19...
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The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

Book by Robert Harms; Basic Books, 2002

Subjects:

Slave Trade--Africa, West--History--18th Century, Slave Trade--France--History--18th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

Using the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, Robert Harms recreates the voyage of the French slave ship, 'The Diligent'. This book challenges popular beliefs about the slave trade - a highly organized, Atlantic wide system.
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Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia

Book by Robert M. Baum; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Diola (African People)--Religion, Esulalu (Senegal)--Religion, Slave Trade--Senegal--Esulalu--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and ...
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In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a complex of religious shrines and priesthoods to regulate and contain the influence of the slave trade. He demonstrates how this close involvement with the traders significantly changed Diola religious life.
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Great Britain and the Slave Trade, 1839-1865

Book by William Law Mathieson; Octagon Books, 1967

Subjects:

Slave Trade, Slavery--America

Collections: History, Entire Library

...CHAPTER V SLAVE-TRADING AND EMIGRATION...173 Slave-trading suppressed at New York...178 Slave-trading from European ports 179...
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The Right of Search and the Slave Trade in Anglo-American Relations, 1814-1862

Book by Hugh G. Soulsby; The John Hopkins Press, 1933

Subjects:

Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, Search, Right Of, Slave Trade, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to grant a right of search for slave trading pirates, which it could not consistently...allow that it already existed for slave trading pirates; yet the distinction...Negro Slavery ; F. Bancroft, Slave Trading in the Old South . 16...

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Journal Articles on: slave trading

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In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union

Journal article by Stanley L. Engerman; Civil War History, Vol. 48, 2002

Subjects:

In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union...Pp. xvii, 516. Cloth, $45.00.) Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia...master power and control in most slave societies. Robert Edgar Conrad, who...
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In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union

Journal article by Robert Gudmestad; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, 2002

Subjects:

In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union...recently edited The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (Cambridge...a 1999 conference on the internal slave trades in the Americas; and the William...
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Telegram Relating to the Slave Trade

Journal article by Karen Needles, Lee Ann Potter; Social Education, Vol. 66, 2002

Subjects:

Slave trade--Study and teaching, Social sciences

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...conviction of Nathaniel Gordon for slave trading. This controversial decision led...S. history to be executed for slave trading. Although the importation of...Gordon was charged with piracy and slave trading in violation of the Act of 1820...
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The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the Abolition of the West African Slave Trade

Journal article by Tara Helfman; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006

Subjects:

Courts of special jurisdiction--Social aspects, Crimes against humanity--Laws, regulations and rules, Slave trade--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Entire Library

...into a crown colony. Second, the slave-trading ships based in Bristol and Liverpool...few months since renounced Slave trading, are still supplying those fast-sailing...have done what Britain and the slave trading powers of Europe did in Thorpes...
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"In Pressing Need of Cash": Gender, Skill, and Family Persistence in the Domestic Slave Trade

Journal article by Daina Ramey Berry; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, 2007

Subjects:

Slave trade--History, Social history--19th century AD, Social sciences and history--19th century AD, United States--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...into issues on gender, skill, and slave trading, another set of these patterns...William H. Goodwin established a slave trading company in Richmond, Virginia...demeanour." (47) P. M. Tabb and Son, a slave trading company in Richmond, Virginia...

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Magazine Articles on: slave trading

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The Hell-Borbe Traffic: William Owen and the African Slave Trade

Magazine article by Jordan Goodman; Geographical, Vol. 79, September 2007

Subjects:

Africa--Discovery and exploration, Hydrographic surveying, Naval officers--Appreciation, Navies--Appreciation, Navies--Officials and employees, Owen, William Fitzwilliam--Appreciation, Slave trade--History

Collections: Entire Library

...campaign for the full abolition of slave trading regardless of nationality. But...to help in the suppression of slave trading, they were, to him, no more than...ships were involved in illegal slave trading, from Freetown to the island of...
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British Made: Abolition and the Africa Trade: Kevin Shillington Looks at the Impact on Africa of the Slave Trade, and Its Abolition 200 Years Ago This Month

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 57, March 2007

Subjects:

African history--Political aspects, British colonialism--History, Caribbean Islands--Economic aspects, Caribbean Islands--History, Industrial Revolution, ca. 1750-1900--Influence, Industry--History, Industry--Influence, Portuguese colonialism--History, Slave trade--Economic aspects, Slave trade--History, United Kingdom. Slave Trade Act of 1807

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Hawkins led the first British slave-trading venture to West Africa and the...Liverpool had become the largest slave trading port in the world. Glasgow joined...Britain became the worlds leading slave trading nation. The profits that European...
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The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade

Magazine article by Graham Gendall Norton; History Today, Vol. 56, September 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the captains of the slave ships. On the individual...blacks involved in the trading, nameless, except...Company of Merchants Trading to Africa, in effect...controlled by the leading slave traders of London...the complexity of slave-trading in the eighteenth...
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The Nefarious Trade: Britain's First Anti-Slavery Act Was Ineffective, Says Marika Sherwood-British Slave Traders Found Ways around It to Carry on Their Profitable Activities, While British Commerce Flourished through the Import of Slave-Grown Cotton

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 57, March 2007

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery, Slave trade--History, Slavery--Emancipation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...into force, British slave traders were already...in agreements to stop trading, or to stop trading at particular latitudes...their profits from cheap slave-produced goods. Even...not officially banned slave trading. It was simple. So simple...
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The Boys from Malagasey: In the First of a Number of Articles Marking the Bicentenary of the Bill of March 1807 to Abolish the Slave Trade, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones Tells the Remarkable Story of the Boys from Madagascar Who Were Sent to England to Be Educated in the 1820s as Part of an Agreement with the British to Develop the Country and End Madagascan Dependency on the Exportation of Slaves

Magazine article by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones; History Today, Vol. 57, January 2007

Subjects:

Abolition of slavery--History, Slave trade--History, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...two of them to drill his own army. A Treaty abolishing slave trading in Madagascar was signed with Britain, and the King compensated for the loss of slave revenue. The Treaty was ratified in 1820, and among its...

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Newspaper Articles on: slave trading

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Ulster Man of the People: Sale of Tots Is as Bad as Slave Trading

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), January 21, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Ulster Man of the People: Sale of Tots Is as Bad as Slave Trading. Byline: Shane Donaghey LAST week, we discovered...discover that the sale of babies - as disgraceful as slave trading - is alive and well in Britain 200 years after it was...
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Bishop Links Racism to Liverpool's Slave Trading Past in Attack on Church

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 22, 2007

Subjects:

Racism--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Bishop Links Racism to Liverpools Slave Trading Past in Attack on Church. THE...its complicity in the transatlantic slave trade. The Rt Rev James Jones also...Walker with the racist legacy of the slave trade. Bishop Jones made his remarks...
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Trading in Human Misery; Liverpool Was Late into the Slave Trade, but Soon Made Up for Lost Time. Peter Elson Reports on the Reprinting of Classic Work about the Business That Made the Seaport Rich

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...abolition in 1807. During the slave trading era of 70 years or so, the merchant...says: Theres no doubt that with slave trading contributing a third to a half...had good access to capital, as slave trading required a long term investment...
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The Great Trading Port; Flash Back

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), March 8, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...rapidly as part of the triangular slave trade between Liverpool, West Africa...another of Liverpools most important trading relationships. Sixteen thousand tons...another key component in Liverpools slave trading role. Until 1805 all sugar imports...
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World-Wide Trading from the Mersey; Flash Back Maritime TALES

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), April 14, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Britain was also very active in trading enslaved Africans across the Atlantic and Liverpool became Europes leading slave trading port until British abolition in 1807. After 1800 Britain developed worldwide trading links to South America, Africa...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: slave trading

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Benin, Bight Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ghana, and the Niger River delta, SW Nigeria. The bight was an important area for slave trading between the 16th and 19th cent. After the 19th cent. palm oil trading became fo primary importance. In the late 1950s oil was discovered in the Niger...
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Bahr-El-Ghazal

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in the 19th cent. was followed by the development of slave trading. With the suppression of the slave trade in 1864 by...a Turko-Egyptian force sent to reinforce the ban on slave trading. The khedive then made Bahr-el-Ghazal a nominal province...
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Benguela

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was built there in the late 16th cent., and the city was founded in 1617. Benguelas port played an important role in slave trading. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed...
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Drake, Sir Francis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...age apprenticed to a ship captain. He made voyages to Guinea and the West Indies and in 1567 commanded a ship in a slave-trading expedition of his kinsman, John Hawkins . On the voyage the Spanish attacked and destroyed all but three of the English...
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Slavery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...coast of Africa, the market being in Muslim lands. Most antislavery efforts during the 19th cent. were directed against slave trading. Great Britain had passed antislave-trade laws in 1807 and 1811; the British attempted to enlist other nations in an...

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