Slavery and the British Empire. From Africa to America
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- Author(s) Morgan, Kenneth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 221pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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A scholarly overview by leading expert, from origins in 17th century to 1807, dealing largely with the Atlantic trade (but also elsewhere), sugar plantation industry, planters and merchants, economic impact, etc, etc - not least the slaves, their condition, lives, culture, etc. Has chapters: 'Slavery and the slave trade'; 'Merchants and planters'; 'The triangular trade'; 'Slave demography and family life'; 'Work, law, and culture'; 'Slave resistance and rebellion'; 'The abolition of the British slave trade'; 'Slave emancipation'