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Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port /
This title enquires into the social world of 18th century Bristolians. It asks such questions as how much did Bristol's Georgian renaissance owe to slave-derived wealth and what role did white women and artisans play in the anti-slavery movement?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. History of the transatlantic slave trade.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Notes; 1 Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Bristol and the trade in Africans before 1698; Bristol and the illegal slave trade; Bristol in the Caribbean; Bristol and the African trade, 1698-1750; Making money from the slave trade; John Duckinfield and other slave traders; Bristol as a slaving port; Notes; 2 Cultural Exchanges: The Representation of Black People and the Black Presence in Bristol, c. 1700-75; Representation and race; Crewmen's tales
- Africans in Bristol: subaltern voices on the black presenceThe case of the Old Calabar princes; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Gentility and Slavery: Bristol's Urban Renaissance Reconsidered, c. 1673-c. 1820; The city, 1676-1713; The urban renaissance in Bristol; Green mansions: stately homes and slave wealth; Gentility; Notes; 4 Thinking about the Slave Trade: Abolition and Its Opponents, 1760-91; The culture of abolition; Literature, gender and abolition; Anti-abolition; The theatre of race; Evasive manoeuvres: Bristol anti-abolitionists and the middle passage
- Political activity: anti-abolition rhetoric in BristolNotes; 5 Abolition in a Cold Climate, 1792-1807; Respectable anti-slavery; Romanticism and anti-slavery; Sierra Leone and Bristol, 1787-99; Black people in Bristol in the age of abolition; Theatrical reactions: Bristol and slavery at a time of war; Theatrical rituals; Abolition subdued? The Caribbean interest and Bristol politics, 1800-7; Notes; 6 The Struggle for Emancipation; Political radicals and the issue of colonial slavery; The election of 1812 and the West India interest; Changing public attitudes towards slavery, 1814-30
- A political engagement?Women and the anti-slavery campaign; The 'slavery election' of 1830; Claxton and slavery; Abolition and reform; Missionaries and revolt; Emancipation and reform in 1832; Notes; Conclusion: Thresholds of Recollection; Notes; Select Bibliography of Unpublished Primary Sources; Index