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Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port: The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Autor Madge Dresser
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2016
Slavery Obscured aims to assess how the slave trade affected the social life and cultural outlook of the citizens of a major English city, and contends that its impact was more profound than has previously been acknowledged. Based on original research in archives in Britain and America, this title builds on scholarship in the economic history of the slave trade to ask questions about the way slave-derived wealth underpinned the city of Bristol's urban development and its growing gentility. How much did Bristol's Georgian renaissance owe to such wealth? Who were the major players and beneficiaries of the African and West Indian trades? How, in an ever-changing historical environment, were enslaved Africans represented in the city's press, theatre and political discourse? What do previously unexplored religious, legal and private records tell us about the black presence in Bristol or about the attitudes of white seamen, colonists and merchants towards slavery and race? What role did white women and artisans play in Bristol's anti-slavery movement? Combining a historical and anthropological approach, Slavery Obscured, seeks to shed new light on the contradictory and complex history of an English slaving port and to prompt new ways of looking at British national identity, race and history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474291699
ISBN-10: 1474291694
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Six key titles on the history of the transatlantic slave trade in Africa, Europe and South and North America brought back into print

Notă biografică

Madge Dresser is Associate Professor in Social and Cultural British History c.1688-1835 at the University of the West of England, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Cuprins

Introduction1. Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade2. Cultural Exchanges: The Representation of Black People and the Black Presence in Bristol, c. 1700-753. Gentility and Slavery: Bristol's Urban Renaissance Reconsidered, c. 1673-c. 18204. Thinking about the Salve Trade: Abolition and Its Opponents, 1760-915. Abolition in a Cold Climate, 1792-18076. The Struggle for EmancipationConclusion: Threshold of RecollectionSelected Bibliography of Unpublished Primary Sources