Making the Black Atlantic - Britain and the African Diaspora

List of contents

Introduction
1. Before the British
2. The Coming of the British
3. Origins and Destinations
4. Plantations
5. Slave Culture
6. Profiting from Slaver
7. Black Britain
8. The Fruits of Slave Labour
9. Quakers and Other Friends
10. Attacking Slavery
11. Consequences
Guide to Further Reading
Index

About the author

James Walvin taught for many years at the University of York where he is now Professor of History Emeritus. He also held visiting positions in the Caribbean, the U.S.A. and Australia. He won the prestigious Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for his book Black and White, and has published widely on the history of slavery and the slave trade. His book The People's Game was a pioneering study of the history of football and remains in print thirty years after its first publication.

Summary

The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation and their colonial settlements in the Caribbean and North America absorbed vast numbers of Africans. The crops produced by those slaves helped to lay the foundations for Western material well-being, and their associated cultural habits helped to shape key areas of Western sociability that survive to this day. Britain was also central in the drive to end slavery, in her own possessions and elsewhere in the world. Making the Black Atlantic presents a coherent story of Britain’s role in the African diaspora, its origins, progress, and transformation.

Foreword

This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

Product details

• Authors: James Walvin, James (University of York Walvin
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474292894
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9289-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bloomsbury Academic Collections; The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery