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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery (Paperback)
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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery (Paperback)
Series: Short Histories
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Loot Price R476
Discovery Miles 4 760
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From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the
nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from
west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the
infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World.
Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely
condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious
leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated
classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept
and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as
barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave
experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations -
Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole
culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in
Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of
Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave
trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human
trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book
reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and
merchant institution.
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