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2. A slaving voyage to Africa and Jamaica: the log of the Sandown, 1793-1794
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Mouser,Bruce L. (Author) and Mouser,Bruce L. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Based on Samuel Gamble’s ship’s log entitled ’A journal of an intended voyage, by God’s permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown" by me Samuel Gamble Commander.Captain Samuel Gamble's log contains the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive. Bruce Mouser's faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the 18th century. Gamble was captain of the British merchant Sandown. During 1793—1794, the ship embarked on a commercial venture from England to Upper Guinea in West Africa to buy slaves and transport them for sale in Kingston, Jamaica. Gamble describes shipping at the beginning of the Anglo-French war in 1793, naval and nautical procedures for the English-African-West Indian trade, and the slave-trading patterns and institutions on the African coast and at Kingston, Jamaica. He recounts as well a yellow fever epidemic that swept the Atlantic and crippled commerce on both sides of the ocean. Mouser's extensive annotations place Gamble's account in historical context and explain for the reader Gamble's observations on commerce, disease, and African peoples along the Upper Guinea coast; Based on Samuel Gamble’s ship’s log entitled ’A journal of an intended voyage, by God’s permission, from London towards Africa from hence to America in the good ship Sandown" by me Samuel Gamble Commander.
3. Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Colley,Linda (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- London: Jonathan Cape
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 438 p
4. Maharani's misery: narratives of a passage from India to the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shepherd,Verene A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 177 p
5. Nelson in the Caribbean: the hero emerges, 1784-1787
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Callo,Joseph (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Annapolis: Naval Institute Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- xvi
- Notes:
- 230 p, Pivot point of a career / World within a world / Sea of contention / Local perspective / Geopolitical factors / Troubled waters / Legal morass / The Schomberg affair / Fraud and pardon / The predecessors / A young widow / Courtship / Marriage / Aftermath. ; Contains: Includes bibliographical references ( [217]-221) and inde
6. Ragamuffin
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Naphtali,Amani (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- London: Oberon Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 87 p
7. Slavery, empathy, and pornography
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wood,Marcus (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Oxford New York: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 467 p, Includes bibliographical references ( [428]-456) and index.
8. Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carrington,Selwyn H. H. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 362 p, Contents: Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue
9. The British Atlantic world, 1500-1800
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Armitage,David (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- xx
- Notes:
- Contains: Three concepts of Atlantic history /; David Armitage --; Migration /; Alison Games --; Economy /; Nuala Zahedieh --; Religion /; Carla Gardina Pestana --; Civility and authority /; Michael J. Braddick --; Gender /; Sarah M.S. Pearsall --; Class /; Keith Wrightson --; Race /; Joyce E. Chaplin --; Empire and state /; Elizabeth Mancke --; Revolution and counter-revolution /; Eliga H. Gould --; Politics of slavery /; Christopher L. Brown --; Atlantic history : a circumnavigation /; J.H. Elliott.
10. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor vs. Slavery in British Emancipation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Drescher,Seymour (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- New York, NY: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Product Description By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights.;