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Liverpool University Press Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838: The Steadfast Scot in
Book SynopsisIn 1833 Thomas Fowell Buxton, the parliamentary successor to William Wilberforce, proposed a toast to ‘the anti-slavery tutor of us all. - Mr. Macaulay.’ Yet Zachary Macaulay’s considerable contribution to the ending of slavery in the British Empire has received scant recognition by historians. This book seeks to fill that gap, focussing on his involvement with slavery and anti-slavery but also examining the people and events that influenced him in his life’s work. It traces his Scottish roots and his torrid account of years as a young overseer on a Jamaican plantation. His accidental stumbling into the anti-slavery circle through a family marriage led to formative years in the government of the free colony of Sierra Leone dealing with settlers, slave traders, local chiefs and a French invasion. His return to Britain in 1799 began nearly forty years of research, writing, and reporting in the long campaign to get rid of what he described as ‘this foul stain on the nation.’ James Stephen rated him as the most feared and hated foe of slave interests. His weaknesses and failures are explored alongside his unswerving commitment to the cause to which he gave his energy, sacrificed his business interests, and saw as a natural result of his strong religious faith. This book is a result of extensive research of Macaulay’s own prolific writings and seeks to illustrate the man behind them, his passions and his prejudices, his steely resolve and his personal shyness, above all his willingness to work unremittingly in the background, generating the power to drive the engine of anti-slavery to victory.Trade ReviewA solidly researched and well written book that provides a much needed modern critical biographical study on the forgotten abolitionist, Zachary Macaulay. Catherine Hall, University College LondonThis is an overdue, fascinating and carefully researched account of one of Scotland’s unsung heroes.Lord David Steel, former Presiding Officer of the Scottish ParliamentTable of Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Illustrations Chronology Introduction 1. From Inverary to the Sierra Leone River 2. Slave Traders and French Invaders 3. Captive in Love--to Selina Mills 4. The Trials of the Governor 5. Caught in a Multitude of Tasks 6. Clapham, Family and Friends 7. Attempting to Win France for Abolition 8. 'Let Us Look it Up in Macaulay'--The Anti-Slavery Arms Manufacturer 9. Commerce and Conflict 10. Triumph and Tragedy on the Path to Glory 11. As Others Saw Him--As We Might Assess Him Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean
Book SynopsisApparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of slavery in the New World. These links have long been a source of critical fascination, generating several landmark analyses, ranging from Fernando Ortis’s Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) and Noël Deerr’s monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985). Unlike previous texts, Plasa’s meticulously researched book not only examines the traditional classic studies but also the hitherto largely ignored work produced by a number of expatriate Caribbean authors, both male and female, from the 1980s onwards. As a result Slaves to Sweetness provides the most comprehensive account to date of the historical transformations which sugar’s representation has undergone, providing a rich resource for scholars in Slavery, Caribbean, Black Atlantic, Postcolonial and Literary Studies.Trade ReviewSlaves to Sweetness is an important addition to the fields of postcolonial studies and of contemporary black writing: indeed, one of the most important connections it makes is to link them. Rich in perceptive close reading and razor-sharp insight, this is an important addition to the reading of all these texts, but also to the ‘reading’ of sugar.The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 61, No. 249Elegantly written and informative with many new insights.Charlotte Sussman, Duke UniversityCarla Plasa’s Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar offers a more refined (excuse the pun) and refreshing take on movement and migration within a Caribbean and black British context.Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. ‘Muse Suppress the tale’: James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and the poetry of refinement 2. ‘Stained with Spots of Human Blood’: Sugar, abolition and cannibalism 3. ‘Conveying away the Trash’: Sweetening Slavery in Matthew Lewis’s Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a residence in the Island of Jamaica 4. ‘Sugared almonds and pink Lozenges’: George Eliot’s ‘Brother Jacob’ as Literary Confection 5. ‘Cane is a Slaver’: Sugar Men and Sugar Women in postcolonial Caribbean poetry 6. ‘Daughters Sacrificed to Strangers’: Interracial desires and intertextual memories in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge 7. ‘Somebody Kill Somebody, Then?’: The sweet revenge of Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India,
Book Synopsis‘There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery’ (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied or excused? By exploring Britain's ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India, and the official, evangelical and popular discourses which surrounded them, she seeks to uncover the various political, economic and ideological agendas that allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart. In doing so, she uncovers tensions in the relationship between colonial policy and the so-called 'civilising mission', elucidating the intricate interactions between humanitarian movements, colonial ideologies and imperial imperatives in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The work draws on a range of sources from Britain and India to provide a trans-national perspective on this little known facet of the story of slavery and abolition in the British Empire, uncovering the complex ways in which Indian slavery was encountered, discussed, utilised, rationalised, and reconciled with the economic, political and moral imperatives of an empire whose focus was shifting to the East.Trade ReviewReviews 'A most impressive work of scholarship which will come to occupy a major and important niche in this area.' Stanley Engerman'This will remain the standard history of British abolitionism and Indian slavery for years to come.' Enrico Dal Lago, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol 55, 4'This will remain the standard history of British abolitionism and Indian slavery for years to come.'Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol 55, Issue 4Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Some Prominent Figures in the British Parliament, the Abolitionist Movement and the East India Company Part I. Other Slaveries Introduction 1. ‘To Call a Slave a Slave’: Recovering Indian Slavery Part II. European Slaveries Introduction: Slavery and Colonial Expansion in India 2. ‘A Shameful and Ruinous Trade’: European Slave-trafficking and the East India Company 3. Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays: European Slave-holding and Early Colonial Society Part III. Indian Slaveries Introduction: Locating Indian Slaveries 4. ‘This Household Servitude’: Domestic Slavery and Immoral Commerce 5. ‘Open and Professed Stealers of Children’: Slave-trafficking and the Boundaries of the Colonial State Part IV. Imagined Slaveries Introduction: Evangelical Connections 7. ‘Satan’s Wretched Slaves’: Indian Society and the Evangelical Imagination 8. ‘The Produce of the East by Free Men’: Indian Sugar and Indian Slavery in British Abolitionist Debates, 1793–1833 Conclusion: ‘Do Justice to India’: Abolitionists and Indian Slavery, 1839–1843 Select Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex, and
Book SynopsisThe Haitian Revolution has generated responses from commentators in fields ranging from philosophy to historiography to twentieth-century literary and artistic studies. But what about the written work produced at the time, by Haitians? This book is the first to present an account of a specifically Haitian literary tradition in the Revolutionary era. Beyond the Slave Narrative shows the emergence of two strands of textual innovation, both evolving from the new revolutionary consciousness: the remarkable political texts produced by Haitian revolutionary leaders Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and popular Creole poetry from anonymous courtesans in Saint-Domingue's libertine culture. These textual forms, though they differ from each other, both demonstrate the increasing cultural autonomy and literary voice of non-white populations in the colony at the time of revolution. Unschooled generals and courtesans, long presented as voiceless, are at last revealed to be legitimate speakers and authors. These Haitian French and Creole texts have been neglected as a foundation of Afro-diasporic literature by former slaves in the Atlantic world for two reasons: because they do not fit the generic criteria of the slave narrative (which is rooted in the autobiographical experience of enslavement); and because they are mediated texts, relayed to the print-cultural Atlantic domain not by the speakers themselves, but by secretaries or refugee colonists. These texts challenge how we think about authorial voice, writing, print culture, and cultural autonomy in the context of the formerly enslaved, and demand that we reassess our historical understanding of the Haitian Independence and its relationship to an international world of contemporary readers.Trade ReviewColonial and postcolonial studies will gain significant new breadth and depth with the publication of Deborah Jenson’s Beyond the Slave Narrative: Sex, Politics, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution. This pathbreaking book brings to light the rich but largely neglected Francophone record of black literacy from the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Rectifying the anglocentric view that slave narratives were the only or most authentic form of black voices from the past, Jenson provides probing analyses of Creole poetry, political discourse, and other materials. Deeply committed to improving present-day conditions in Haiti, Jenson finds in the cultural heritage of the past the basis for a fuller understanding of current problems and for hope in the future. Doris Y. KadishTable of ContentsIntroduction Race and Voice in the Archives: Mediated Testimony and Interracial Commerce in Saint-Domingue PART ONE: Voicing the Political Sphere Chapter 1 Toussaint Louverture, “Spin Doctor”? The Politics of Media in the Haitian Revolution Chapter 2 Dessalines’ American Proclamations of the Haitian Independence Chapter 3 Before Malcolm X, Dessalines: A French-Language Tradition of Black Atlantic Radicalism Chapter 4 Dessalines’ Anticolonial Imperialism: Santo Domingo, Trinidad, Venezuela Chapter 5 Kidnapped Narratives: The Lost Heir of Henry Christophe and the Imagined Communities of the African Diaspora PART TWO: Voicing the Libertine Sphere Chapter 6 Traumatic Indigeneity: The (Anti)Colonial Politics of “Having” A Creole Literary Culture Chapter 7 Mimetic Mastery and Colonial Mimicry: The Candio in the Popular Creole Literary Tradition Chapter 8 Dissing Rivals, Love for Sale: The Cocotte’s Rap and the Not-So Tragic Mulatta
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of
Book SynopsisA timely and original look at the role of the eyewitness account in the representation of slavery in British and European art Gathering together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, this book offers an unprecedented examination of the shifting iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and 1840. In addition to considering how the work of artists such as Agostino Brunias, James Hakewill, and Augustus Earle responded to abolitionist politics, Sarah Thomas examines the importance of the eyewitness account in endowing visual representations of transatlantic slavery with veracity. “Being there,” indeed, became significant not only because of the empirical opportunities to document slave life it afforded but also because the imagery of the eyewitness was more credible than sketches and paintings created by the “armchair traveler” at home. Full of original insights that cast a new light on these highly charged images, this volume reconsiders how slavery was depicted within a historical context in which truth was a deeply contested subject.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Thomas delivered an excellent volume in which she comprehensibly shows the great impact that visual culture had on the era of abolition and how contested images of eyewitness artists were used for the propaganda purposes of the pro- and anti-slavery movements.”—Annika Vosseler, Connections“Engaging and provocative . . . Deals mainly with British publications during the heyday of illustrated book publishing, persuasively arguing that these artworks were deeply influenced by the politics surrounding their production.”—Richard Price, New West Indian Guide“[A] lavishly illustrated and finely produced book . . . Thomas brings together several bodies of scholarship on the visual culture of slavery, travel, and imperial landscape.”—Esther Chadwick, Art History “A powerful look at the varied contexts in which artists found themselves in the Americas as witnesses to societies that depended on enslaved labour . . . The book’s resonance with our contemporary reality is impossible to miss.”—Allison Young, Slavery & Abolition“[A] beautifully effective book. Large-size, perfect color reproductions of paintings and prints on a remarkably readable and viewable heavy-stock paper make it possible to survey the art of slavery for our own determinations.”—John E. Crowley, Journal of British Studies
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Pennsylvania Historical Association Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania
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West Virginia University Press The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
Book SynopsisOne of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding. Every history of West Virginia’s creation in 1863 explains the event in similar ways: at the start of the Civil War, political, social, cultural, and economic differences with eastern Virginia motivated the northwestern counties to resist secession from the Union and seek their independence from the rest of the state. In The Fifth Border State, Scott A. MacKenzie offers the first new interpretation of the topic in over a century—one that corrects earlier histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.Employing previously unused sources and reexamining existing ones, MacKenzie argues that West Virginia experienced the Civil War in the same ways as the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Like these northernmost slave states, northwestern Virginia supported the institution of slavery out of proportion to the actual presence of enslavement there. The people who became West Virginians built a new state first to protect slavery, but radical Unionists and escaping slaves forced emancipation on the statehood movement. MacKenzie shows how conservatives and radicals clashed over Black freedom, correcting many myths about West Virginia’s origins and making The Fifth Border State an important addition to the literature in Appalachian and Civil War history.Trade Review“A refreshing new look at how West Virginia became a state. I can see The Fifth Border State appealing widely to scholars of the Civil War era.”—William Hal Gorby, West Virginia UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Northwestern Virginia’s Path towards Reconciliation, 1829–1851 2. Northwestern Virginia on the Defensive, 1851–1860 3. Northwestern Virginia in the Secession Crisis, January to July 1861 4. The Conservative Phase of the West Virginia Statehood Movement, August 1861 to February 1862 5. The Radical Phase of the West Virginia Statehood Movement, March 1862 to June 1863 6. West Virginia under Radical Rule, June 1863 to December 1869 Epilogue: West Virginia Redeemed, 1870–1872 Appendix A: An Appeal of the People of West Virginia to Congress, Suggesting for the Consideration of Members Material Facts Appendix B: Report of the Minority to Lincoln’s Border State Emancipation Plan, July 15, 1862 Notes
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Leiden University Press Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History
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Leiden University Press Serving the chain?: De Nederlandsche Bank and the
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University of the West Indies Press Slave Population & Economy In Jamaica 1807-1834
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1976, work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica.
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University of the West Indies Press In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in
Book SynopsisThomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in 1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his daily activities and his observations of life around him. His diaries contain a rich chronicle of plantation life – its people, social life, agricultural techniques, medicinal remedies and relations between slaves and their owners.
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University of the West Indies Press Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John
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University of the West Indies Press The First Black Slave Society: Britain's
Book SynopsisIn this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados’s history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century – the Portuguese and Spanish had commercialized chattel slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the 1500s – but in Barbados, the practice of slavery reached its apotheosis.Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized. The geography of Barbados was ideally suited to sugar plantations and there were enormous fortunes to be made for British royalty and ruling elites from sugar produced by an enslaved, “disposable” workforce, fortunes that secured Britain’s place as an imperial superpower. The inhumane legacy of plantation society has shaped modern Barbados and this history must be fully understood by the inheritors on both sides of the power dynamic before real change and reparatory justice can take place.A prequel to Beckles’s equally compelling Britain’s Black Debt, The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636–1876 is essential reading for anyone interested in Atlantic history, slavery and the plantation system, and modern race relations.
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NUS Press The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1981, ""The Sulu Zone"" has become a classic in the field of Southeast Asian History. The book deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical ""border zone"" centred on the Sulu and Celebes Seas between 1768 and 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the West. The author examines the social and cultural forces generated within the Sulu Sultanate by the China trade, namely the advent of organized, long distance maritime slave raiding and the assimilation of captives on a hitherto unprecedented scale into a traditional Malayo-Muslim social system.How entangled commodities, trajectories of tastes, and patterns of consumption and desire that span continents linked to slavery and slave raiding, the manipulation of diverse ethnic groups, the meaning and constitution of ""culture,"" and state formation? James Warren responds to this question by reconstructing the social, economic, and political relationships of diverse peoples in a multi-ethnic zone of which the Sulu Sultanate was the centre, and by problematizing important categories like ""piracy"", ""slavery"", ""culture"", ""ethnicity"", and the ""state"". His work analyzes the dynamics of the last autonomous Malayo-Muslim maritime state over a long historical period and describes its stunning response to the world capitalist economy and the rapid ""forward movement"" of colonialism and modernity.It also shows how the changing world of global cultural flows and economic interactions caused by cross-cultural trade and European dominance affected men and women who were forest dwellers, highlanders, and slaves, people who worked in everyday jobs as fishers, raiders, divers or traders. Often neglected by historians, the response of these members of society are a crucial part of the history of Southeast Asia.
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NUS Press Abolitions as a Global Experience
Book SynopsisThe abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the nineteenth century. Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy were these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally shared experience appeared and developed. Chapters cover a variety of different settings, from West Africa to East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, with close consideration of the British, French and Dutch colonial contexts, as well as internal developments in Russia and Japan. What elements of the abolition decision were due to international pressure, and which to local factors? Furthermore, this collection does not solely focus on the moment of formal abolition, but looks hard at the aftermath of abolition, and also at the ways abolition was commemorated and remembered in later years.This book complicates the conventional story that global abilition was essentially a British moralizing effort, “among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations”. Using comparison and connection, this book tells a story of dynamic encounters between local and global contexts, of which the local efforts of British abolition campaigns were a part.Looking at abolitions as a globally shared experience provides an important perspective, not only to the field of slavery and abolition studies, but also the field of global or world history.
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