The British Transatlantic Slave Trade

J R Oldfield (Autor)

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1632 Seiten

2003
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
978-1-85196-756-8 (ISBN)

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Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle.

J R Oldfield

Volume 1: The Operation of the Slave Trade in Africa John Hawkins, A true declaration of the troublesome voyage of M John Hawkins to the parties of Guynea and the West Indies, in the yeares of our Lord 1567 and 1568 (1569); John Matthews, A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone (1788); John Adams, Sketches taken during Ten Voyages to Africa between the years 1786 and 1800 (1821); Gomer Williams, excerpt from History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, with an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade (1897) Volume 2: The Royal African Company Certain Considerations relating to the Royal African Company of England ... (1680); A True State of the present difference between the Royal African Company and the Separate Traders ... written by a true lover of his country (1710); The Case of the Royal African Company of England (1730); Charles Hayes, The importance of effectually supporting the Royal African Company of England, impartially consider'd ... (1744); Malachy Postlethwayt, The African Trade, the Great Pillar and Support of the British Plantation Trade in North America (1745); Malachy Postlethwayt, The National and Private Advantages of the African Trade Considered (1746) Volume 3: The Abolitionist Struggle: Opponents of the Slave Trade Robert Boucher Nickolls, Letter to the Treasurer of the Society for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787); Thomas Cooper, Letters on the Slave Trade (1787); [William Roscoe], A General View of the African Slave-Trade (1788); James Field Stanfield, Observations on a Guinea Voyage (1788); Thomas Cochrane, Answers to the Fifth Table of Queries (1789); Thomas Clarkson, The Substance of the Evidence of Sundry Persons on the Slave Trade (1789); [William Fox], An Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Utility of Refraining from West India Sugar and Rum (1791) Volume 4: The Abolitionist Struggle: Promoters of the Slave Trade A Planter, Commercial Reasons for the Non-Abolition of the Slave Trade, in the West-India Islands, by a Planter and Merchant of many Years Residence in the West-Indies (1789); [Gilbert Francklyn], Observations, Occasioned by the Attempts made in England to Effect the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789); William Knox, A Letter from W K Esq To W Wilberforce, Esq (1790); [Capt. Macarty], An Appeal to the Candour and Justice of the People of England in Behalf of the West India Merchants and Planters (1792); Report from the Committee of the Honourable House of [the Jamaican] Assembly (1800); Mercator, Letters Concerning the Abolition of the Slave-Trade and Other West-India Affairs (1807)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.6.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-85196-756-7 / 1851967567
ISBN-13	978-1-85196-756-8 / 9781851967568
Zustand	Neuware