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This reference studies the most recent advances in the development
of ocular drug delivery systems. Covering methods to treat or
prevent ocular inflammation, retinal vascular disease, retinal
degeneration, and proliferative eye disease, this source covers
breakthroughs in the management of endophthalmitis, uveitis,
diabetic macular edema, and age-related macular degeneration.
This book is an examination of the island of St Helena's
involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a
British Vice-Admiralty court there in 1840, this tiny and remote
South Atlantic colony became the hub of naval activity in the
region. It served as a base for the Royal Navy's West Africa
Squadron, and as such became the principal receiving depot for
intercepted slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle
decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 'recaptive' or
'liberated' Africans were landed at the island. Here, in embryonic
refugee camps, these former slaves lived and died, genuine freedom
still a distant prospect. This book provides an account and
evaluation of this episode. It begins by charting the political
contexts which drew St Helena into the fray of abolition, and
considers how its involvement, at times, came to occupy those at
the highest levels of British politics. In the main, however, it
focuses on St Helena itself, and examines how matters played out on
the ground. The study utilises documentary sources (many previously
untouched) which tell the stories of those whose lives became bound
up in the compass of anti-slavery, far from London and long after
the Abolition Act of 1807. It puts the Black experience at the
foreground, aiming to bring a voice to a forgotten people, many of
whom died in limbo, in a place that was physically and conceptually
between freedom and slavery.
This book is an examination of the island of St Helena's
involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a
British Vice-Admiralty court there in 1840, this tiny and remote
South Atlantic colony became the hub of naval activity in the
region. It served as a base for the Royal Navy's West Africa
Squadron, and as such became the principal receiving depot for
intercepted slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle
decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 'recaptive' or
'liberated' Africans were landed at the island. Here, in embryonic
refugee camps, these former slaves lived and died, genuine freedom
still a distant prospect. This book provides an account and
evaluation of this episode. It begins by charting the political
contexts which drew St Helena into the fray of abolition, and
considers how its involvement, at times, came to occupy those at
the highest levels of British politics. In the main, however, it
focuses on St Helena itself, and examines how matters played out on
the ground. The study utilises documentary sources (many previously
untouched) which tell the stories of those whose lives became bound
up in the compass of anti-slavery, far from London and long after
the Abolition Act of 1807. It puts the Black experience at the
foreground, aiming to bring a voice to a forgotten people, many of
whom died in limbo, in a place that was physically and conceptually
between freedom and slavery.
Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 did not end the
traffic of human beings across the Atlantic. Indeed, for many
decades to come, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans
continued to be shipped into slavery. From 1840 to 1872 the remote
South Atlantic island of St Helena played a pivotal role in
Britain's efforts to suppress the slave trade, and over this time
it received over 25,000 'liberated Africans', taken from slave
ships by Royal Navy patrols. Conditions aboard the slavers were
appalling, and many did not survive the journey. Rupert's Valley
therefore became a graveyard to many thousands of Africans - 'a
valley of dry bones' in the words of a visiting missionary. In 2008
archaeological excavations uncovered a small part of that
graveyard, revealing the burials of over 300 victims of the slave
trade. It was disposal on a massive scale, with the dead interred
in a combination of single, multiple and mass graves. This book
presents the finding of the archaeological and osteological study,
and in so doing brings the inhumanity of the slave trade into vivid
focus. It tells the story of a group of children and young adults
who had lived in Africa only a few weeks prior to their death on St
Helena, and whose remains bear witness to the cruelty of their
transportation. However, the archaeology also shows them as more
than just victims, but also as individuals with a sense of their
own identity and culture. The slave trade continues to this day,
and although this book is a study of the past it also serves as a
reminder of evils that persist into the modern day.
Interrogates the development of the world's first international
courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of
nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century. In
1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and
ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world
powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British,
Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized
ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons,
and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a
network of the world's first international courts of humanitarian
justice not only resulted in the "liberation" of nearly two hundred
thousand people but also generated an extensive archive of
documents. Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade,
1807-1896 makes use of theserecords to illuminate the fates of
former slaves, many of whom were released from bondage only to be
conscripted into extended periods of indentured servitude. Essays
in this collection explore a range of topics relatedto those often
referred to as "Liberated Africans"-a designation that, the authors
show, should be met with skepticism. Contributors share an emphasis
on the human consequences for Africans of the abolitionist
legislation. The collection is deeply comparative, looking at
conditions in British colonies such as Sierra Leone, the Gambia,
and the Cape Colony as well as slave-plantation economies such as
Brazil, Cuba, and Mauritius. A groundbreaking intervention in the
study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, this volume will be
welcomed by scholars, students, and all who care about the global
legacy of slavery.
In 11 essays by leading Anglican scholars, this book clarifies what
sets Anglicanism apart from other denominations and offers clarity
for the future of the communion.
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Remote Capture (Paperback)
Adam Farquhar, Andrew Pearson, Jody Butterworth
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R854
Discovery Miles 8 540
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Remote Capture (Hardcover)
Adam Farquhar, Andrew Pearson, Jody Butterworth
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R1,166
Discovery Miles 11 660
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The Saxon Shore Forts were a late Roman phenomenon built in the 3rd
century AD, stretching from Brancaster to Portchester. Based on the
author's thesis, this is a detailed study of the construction of
eleven forts including an analysis of the provenance and nature of
building materials and a discussion of the building process and
resources involved. From conception and design, the extraction and
transportation of materials, to the actual construction programme'
itself, this is a well-written and well-structured study.
The eleven forts constructed by the Romans along the British coast
between Branchester in Norfolk and Portchester in Hampshire have
traditionally been referred to as the 'Forts of the Saxon Shore'.
However, recent research suggests that these sites may have served
as military ports rather then as a coherent defensive system to
deter barbarian invaders. In this rounded study of the subject,
Andrew Pearson draws on all the latest evidence available. After
looking at the surviving monuments themselves, he describes how, in
the third century AD, they came to be built and how they fitted
into the overall Roman coastal system. He then goes on to examine
the construction process itself, calculating the demand for raw
materials, transport and manpower, and demonstrates how these
requirements could have been met. Key to Dr. Pearson's
interpretation of the primary purpose of the forts is an assessment
of the third-century coastline. The physical setting of each
monument in relation to the sea has greatly changed since the Roman
period: today only Portchester retains a situation similar to that
of ancient times. The author also examines how the forts were
occupied and the part they played in their local, regional and
provincial economies. Finally, he charts their decline and eventual
disuse in the late fourth and early fifth centuries.
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