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Originally published as a collection in 2006, the essays in this volume discuss the reasons for the end of the slave trade and the institution of slavery itself. They examine the rise of the abolitionist movement in different countries and how the move towards abolition was swifter in some areas than others. Attention is also paid to the economic consequences of abolition, popular attitudes to abolition and the role of the Church. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.
List of contents
Introduction 1. The Danish Edict of 16th March 1792 to Abolish the Slave Trade, Erik Gøbel 2. The Struggle for Black Liberty: Revolution and Emancipation in Saint Domingue, Jennifer J. Pierce 3. Racial Equality, Slavery and Colonial Secession during the Constituent Assembly, David Geggus 4. The Société des Amis des Noirs and the Abolition of Slavery, Daniel P. Resnick 5. Slaves by Nature? Domestic Animals and Human Slaves, Karl Jacoby 6. Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade, Seymour Drescher 7. Capitalism and Slavery: A Critique, Roger T. Anstey 8. British Evangelicals, Economic Warfare and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1794-1810, Ann M. Burton 9. The Planter Class and British West Indian Sugar Production before and after Emancipation, W. A. Green 10. The British Contribution to the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade, D. Eltis 11. Shipping Patterns and Mortality in the African Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-1830, Herbert S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman 12. Fluctuations in Age and Sex Ratios in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1663-1864, David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman 13. The Amelioration of British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1834: Technical Change and the Plough, J. R. Ward 14. Slave Resistance and White Reaction in the British Windward Islands, 1763-1833, Bernard Marshall 15. The Abolition of Negro Slavery and British Parliamentary Politics, 1832-3, Izhak Gross 16. Abolitionist Pressures on the Concert of Europe, 1814-1832, Betty Fladeland 17. The Road to 1848: Interpreting French Anti-Slavery, Laurent Dubois 18. Causes of the Abolition of Negro Slavery in Brazil: An Interpretive Essay, Richard Graham 19. Brazilian Slavery Re-Examined: A Review Article, Richard Graham 20. The Contraband Slave Trade to Brazil, 1831-1845, Robert Conrad 21. Brazilian Abolition in Comparative Perspective, Seymour Drescher 22. Systems of Domination after Slavery: The Control of Land and Labour in the British West Indies after 1838, O. Nigel Bolland 23. Slavery by Another Name: Apprenticed Women in Jamaican Workhouses in the Period 1834-8, Henrice Altink 24. Hearing Slave Voices: The Fiscal's Reports of Berbice and Demerara -Essequebo, John Lean and Trevor Burnard 25. The Compatibility of the Slave and Palm Oil Trades in the Bight of Biafra, David Northrup. Name Index.
Summary
Originally published as a collection in 2006, the essays in this volume discuss the reasons for the end of the slave trade and the institution of slavery itself. They examine the rise of the abolitionist movement in different countries and how the move towards abolition was swifter in some areas than others.
