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Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America by Kenneth Morgan (Paperback, 2007)
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Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply embedded slavery was in British domestic and imperial history - and just how long it took for British involvement in slavery to die, even after emancipation.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192892911
eBay Product ID (ePID)90891125
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
Publication NameSlavery and the British Empire: from Africa to America
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
AuthorKenneth Morgan
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height217 mm
Item Weight294 g
Item Width140 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKenneth Morgan
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- 08 Jun, 2022
An excellent review of the subject for non-academics by a leading author
This short book reviews many aspects of slavery in the British Empire in a clearly set out format.The layout is particularly clear and if you are interested in one topic the information is easy to find. I found the book very readable and learned a great deal. The book is factual rather than judgemental in style, but does cover many brutal aspects of the trade, slavery itself and slave revoltsThe book is aimed at the serious adult reader but is not an academic text, and puts readability ahead making use of extensive uses of references. The book only really deals with Africa and America (as indicated by the title) so folk interested in slavery and indentured labour in India won't find much to satisfy them here. The book is quite brief and, combined with the clear writing style, I found myself wanting more! The book has a few helpful maps, but is quite thin on numerical data which I found disappointing. The economics of slavery is not dealt with extensively and I would recommend the author's more academic work "Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade in the British Economy" for that subject.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
