The enslavement of Africans and their transportation across the Atlantic has come to occupy a unique place in the public imagination. Despite the wide-ranging atrocities of the twentieth century (incl
The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid popu
In thisnew and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallellives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human
We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon the
A thoughtful history which makes good use of the abundant new scholarship on the English-speaking settlements of the Americas. Covers the link between Europe, Africa, and the Americas; why slavery cam
On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believ
Examining the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement - a trader, an owner and a slave, this book offers an interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of i
As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally accepta
The sixteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese explorers who went to Africa in search of gold discovered an even more lucrative cargo: slaves. A hugely profitable transatlantic trade in human lives soon
The critically acclaimed author of Sugar explains one of the major shifts in Western history in the past five centuries—the end of the slave empires.In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuse
