Free At Last Reflections On Freedom And The Abolition Of The British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Author : Cecily Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443831131
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free at Last? Reflections on Freedom and the Abolition of the British Transatlantic Slave Trade written by Cecily Jones and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global commemorative events of 2007 that marked the bicentennial anniversary of the parliamentary abolition of the African slave trade provided opportunity for widespread discussion between politicians, community groups, museums and heritage organisations, the clergy, and scholars, as to the meanings of colonial and post-colonial freedom. As was evident from the tensions emerging from those debates, the subject of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery remains highly charged, as does the extent to which its legacy of racism, predicated on theoretical assumptions of European cultural, social, political and economic superiority, continues to maintain and reproduce complex systems of inequalities between peoples and societies. Free at Last? is an edited collection of interdisciplinary perspectives that critically reflects on the struggles of enslaved peoples and anti-slavery activists to effect the abolition of the British slave trade, as well as the post-abolition global legacies of those diverse struggles for equality. The chapters bring together multiple narratives and discourses about the British abolition to reflect critically and comparatively on: the boundaries between slavery and freedom; the contestations and championing of freedom; and the legacies of slavery and abolition in the contemporary context.

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349081914
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England, Slaves and Freedom, 1776–1838 written by James Walvin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Swithin R. Wilmot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766373894
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Swithin R. Wilmot and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The European-driven transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the largest forced movement of human beings in history. Over 15 million Africans were shipped to the New World and another 5 million died in captivity over a period of 250 years. The bicentenary of the abolition of the British Transatlantic Trade in Africans for enslavement was commemorated in 2007 and the University of the West Indies Mona campus marked the anniversary by making the bicentenary the focus of its annual Mona Academic Conference on the theme Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective. This volume represents an edited collection of papers that were delivered at the 2007 conference. Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective examines the historical experience of slavery that has helped to shape the Caribbean and its contemporary challenges. In this volume, the contributions both academic and personal, reflect on various aspects of memorialisation; reparations; capitalism and slavery; sovereignty; globalization and trade liberalization; education and gender; freedom and development; migration and Diaspora. "

Author : Richard Huzzey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465370
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Burning written by Richard Huzzey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority to other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave trade, while the Royal Navy enforced abolition worldwide and an anxious public debated the true responsibilities of an anti-slavery nation. This crusade was far from altruistic or compassionate, but Richard Huzzey argues that it forged national debates and political culture long after the famous abolitionist campaigns of William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson had faded into memory. These anti-slavery passions shaped racist and imperialist prejudices, new forms of coerced labor, and the expansion of colonial possessions.In a sweeping narrative that spans the globe, Freedom Burning explores the intersection of philanthropic, imperial, and economic interests that underlay Britain's anti-slavery zeal— from London to Liberia, the Sudan to South Africa, Canada to the Caribbean, and the British East India Company to the Confederate States of America. Through careful attention to popular culture, official records, and private papers, Huzzey rewrites the history of the British Empire and a century-long effort to end the global trade in human lives.

Author : Katie Donington
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526129507
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The bonds of family written by Katie Donington and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain’s Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts’s trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery.

Author : Justin Iverson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820368261
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebels in Arms written by Justin Iverson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enslaved Black people took up arms and fought in nearly every colonial conflict in early British North America. They sometimes served as loyal soldiers to protect and promote their owners’ interests in the hope that they might be freed or be rewarded for their service. But for many Black combatants, war and armed conflict offered an opportunity to attack the chattel slave system itself and promote Black emancipation and freedom. In six cases, starting in 1676 with Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia and ending in 1865 with the First South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment near Charleston, Rebels in Arms tells the long story of how enslaved soldiers and Maroons learned how to use military service and armed conflict to fight for their own interests. Justin Iverson details a different conflict in each chapter, illuminating the participation of Black soldiers. Using a comparative Atlantic analysis that uncovers new perspectives on major military conflicts in British North American history, he reveals how enslaved people used these conflicts to lay the groundwork for abolition in 1865. Over the nearly two-hundred-year history of these struggles, enslaved resistance in the British Atlantic world became increasingly militarized, and enslaved soldiers, Maroons, and plantation rebels together increasingly relied on military institutions and operations to achieve their goals.

Author : Robin Runia
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031120787
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maria Edgeworth and Abolition written by Robin Runia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot offers new readings of Maria Edgeworth’s representations of slavery. It shows how Edgeworth employed satiric technique and intertextual allusion to represent discourses of slavery and abolition as a litmus test of character – one that she invites readers to use on themselves. Over the course of her career, Edgeworth repeatedly indicted hypocritical and hyperbolic misappropriation of the sentimental rhetoric that dominated the slavery debate. This book offers new readings of canonical Edgeworth texts as well as of largely neglected works, including: Whim for Whim, “The Good Aunt”, Belinda, “The Grateful Negro”, “The Two Guardians”, and Harry and Lucy Continued. It also offers an unprecedented deep-dive into an important Romantic Era woman writer’s engagement with discourses of slavery and abolition.

Author : Tanya M. Caldwell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482267
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century written by Tanya M. Caldwell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy.

Author : Cliff Roberson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351002686
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Social, Economic, and Criminal Justice written by Cliff Roberson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system. It critically discusses key concerns involved in realizing economic and social justice, including systemic issues in economic and social justice, issues related to organizations and social institutions, special issues regarding specific populations, and a review of national and international organizations that promote economic justice. Addressing more than just the ideology and theory underlying economic and social justice, the book presents chapters with practical examples and research on how economic and social justice might be achieved within the criminal justice systems of the world. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this book is an essential reference for scholars with an interest in economic and social justice from a wide range of disciplines, including criminal justice and criminology as well as sociology, social work, public policy, and law.

Author : J. R. Oldfield
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719066658
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chords of Freedom written by J. R. Oldfield and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Chords of Freedom' offers valuable new insights into the way in which a 'culture of abolition' took root in Britain, and how our views of transatlantic slavery and figures like William Wilberforce have been revised and amended to reflect the changing demands of a series of 'present days'.