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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery (I.B.Tauris Short Histories)

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From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean – the infamous Middle Passage – to work within the colonies of the New World. Most likely two million Africans died at sea. Why was once slavery so widely condoned, all the way through most of this era, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was once it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for goodbye to simply accept and promote an institution that would, at later ages, be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions – and the slave experience at the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations – Kenneth Morgan discusses the upward push of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the upward push of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade’s systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern around the world, this timely book reflects at the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution.

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