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The terrible story of African slavery in the British colonies of the West Indies and North America is told with clarity and compassion in this classic history.
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The brutal story of African slavery in the British colonies of the West Indies and North America is told with clarity and compassion in this classic history. James Walvin explores the experiences which bound together slaves from diverse African backgrounds and explains how slavery transformed the tastes and economy of the Western world.
Although written for readers with no prior knowledge of the subject, Walvins′s account is based on detailed scholarship, drawing on a body of work from the USA, the West Indies and Britain. All aspects of African slavery up to 1776 are covered; the situation of women, flight and rebellion, disease and death, the conditions on the slave ships, the abolition campaign and much more. The narrative is enlivened and personalised by frequent reference to individual lives.
For this revised edition, the author has incorporated recent scholarly findings and updated the notes and bibliography in order to keep the book current.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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Using an academic (yet accessible) narrative, Walvin successfully educates the reader about the unspeakable horrors of British slavery. The physical and mental colinisation of the African slaves is brilliantly descirbed, as well as the barbaric conditions that made slavery one of history's most durable institutions. This book should be read by anyone who wishes to unravel the historical fabric of black/white race relations in the western world.
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This book was recommended by Philippa Gregory in her notes and references at the end of A Respectable Trade, which is a superb book in itself. I found it on Amazon in reasonable used condition and found it to be well researched and absorbing account of the Slave Trade and Slavery in the English colonies of the West Indies and the soon to be United States. It also covers some of the French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese slave trade. I didn't know that Brazil had slavery until the 1870's, nor that Liverpool had over 100 sailing ships employed as slavers.
All aspects are covered including the farming of slaves in Africa, the horrendous journeys across the ocean, life in the plantations, rebellions and escapes by slaves, and slavery in England. The changing attitudes of the British towards slavery is well covered and the hypocrisy of God fearing wealthy people trading in humanity whilst practising Christianity. Muslim slavers in africa are memtioned too as are the hypocrites in the southern states of the USA which depended upon slave labour.
This is readable narrative history and prompts me to look for more books on the topic.
All aspects are covered including the farming of slaves in Africa, the horrendous journeys across the ocean, life in the plantations, rebellions and escapes by slaves, and slavery in England. The changing attitudes of the British towards slavery is well covered and the hypocrisy of God fearing wealthy people trading in humanity whilst practising Christianity. Muslim slavers in africa are memtioned too as are the hypocrites in the southern states of the USA which depended upon slave labour.
This is readable narrative history and prompts me to look for more books on the topic.
18 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Walvin's conclusion that the slave trade was largely driven by British appetite for tobacco and sugar sounds ludicrous and plausible at the same time. To think that the cravings for sweetness could keep the barbarity of the slave trade going over more than two centuries somehow leave a bitter taste in my modern European mouth--good.
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