Fighting the Slave Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting the Slave Trade write by Sylviane A. Diouf. This book was released on 2003-10-24. Fighting the Slave Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation. Fighting the Slave Trade is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It challenges widely held myths of African passivity and general complicity in the trade and shows that resistance to enslavement and to involvement in the slave trade was much more pervasive than has been acknowledged by the orthodox interpretation of historical literature. Focused on West Africa, the essays collected here examine in detail the defensive, protective, and offensive strategies of individuals, families, communities, and states. In chapters discussing the manipulation of the environment, resettlement, the redemption of captives, the transformation of social relations, political centralization, marronage, violent assaults on ships and entrepôts, shipboard revolts, and controlled participation in the slave trade as a way to procure the means to attack it, Fighting the Slave Trade presents a much more complete picture of the West African slave trade than has previously been available.
The Yellow Demon of Fever
The Yellow Demon of Fever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Yellow Demon of Fever write by Manuel Barcia. This book was released on 2020-01-01. The Yellow Demon of Fever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.
Not for Sale
Not for Sale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not for Sale write by David Batstone. This book was released on 2007. Not for Sale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human trafficking generates $31 billion annually and enslaves 27 million people around the globe, half of them children under the age of eighteen. Award-winning journalist David Batstone, whom Bono calls "a heroic character," profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are leading the struggle to end this appalling epidemic"--P. [4] of cover.
Britain's War Against the Slave Trade
Britain's War Against the Slave Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Britain's War Against the Slave Trade write by Anthony Sullivan. This book was released on 2020-04-30. Britain's War Against the Slave Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of the Royal Navy’s sixty-year campaign to stop slavery across the British Empire, decades before the American Civil War. Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings, and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain’s somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa’s west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain’s decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron, which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy’s ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. In Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known campaign. Whereas Britain is usually, and justifiably, condemned for its earlier involvement in the slave trade, the truth is that in time the Royal Navy undertook a major and expensive operation to end what was, and is, an evil business.
The Slave Trade
The Slave Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Slave Trade write by Elliott Smith. This book was released on 2022. The Slave Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Slavery grew in America with the enslavement of indigenous peoples and millions of Africans. Learn about the Middle Passage and how the slave trade operated and was brought to its end"--
