2 edition of Imagining transatlantic slavery found in the catalog.
Imagining transatlantic slavery
Cora Kaplan
Published
2010
by Palgrave Macmillan in New York
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | edited by Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HT855 .I43 2010 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL24462740M |
| ISBN 10 | 9780230578203 |
| LC Control Number | 2009043494 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 317926687 |
After Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of , a squadron of Royal Navy vessels was sent to the West Coast of Africa tasked with suppressing the thriving transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on previously unpublished papers found in private collections and various archives in the UK and abroad, this book examines the personal and cultural experiences of the naval officers at the. Buy Imagining Transatlantic Slavery by C. Kaplan, J. Oldfield from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £Pages:
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About this book This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
About this book Introduction This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Imagining transatlantic slavery book In the interdisciplinary essays in Imagining Transatlantic Slavery historians, art historians and literary scholars take a critical view of the histories leading up to the defining decisions of –08 and reflect. Imagining Transatlantic Slavery and Abolition Vol Issues of Patterns of prejudice, ISSN X: Editor: John R.
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While memory studies mark a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of. A collection of new essays, Imagining Transatlantic Slavery offers the latest research and thinking on current debates about the representation past and present of transatlantic slavery. Building on the interest generated by the bicentenary inof the end of British and American involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, our volume is interdisciplinary, drawing on history, Format: Hardcover.
To a great extent, this book ultimately seeks to foreground and pay homage to the struggles of unfree peoples enmeshed in the complex web of transatlantic slavery and later, indentured servitude, to secure liberty.
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Imagining Transatlantic Slavery. By Building on the interest generated by the bicentenary in –8 of the end of British and American involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, our volume is interdisciplinary, drawing on history, literature and museum and heritage studies.
Its focus is on the transatlantic nature of slavery Cited by: Introduction: Imagining transatlantic slavery and abolition Article in Patterns of Prejudice 41() July with 21 Reads How we measure 'reads'.
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Imagining Transatlantic Slavery. Anita Rupprecht. Pages: Published online. Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern : Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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In a black American slave lands in Ireland /5. Introduction Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.
This picture book, written by Deborah Hopkinson and illustrated by James Ransome, tries to present the painful truth about slavery without images that will overly upset young children.
It tells the story of a young girl who resourcefully hides a map to freedom in a quilt : Claire Fallon.A collection of new essays, Imagining Transatlantic Slavery offers the latest research and thinking on current debates about the representation - past and present - of transatlantic slavery.transatlantic slave trade, part of the global slave trade that transported 10–12 million enslaved Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
In the ‘triangular trade,’ arms and textiles went from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
