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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450361603321

Autore

Rawley James A

Titolo

London, metropolis of the slave trade [[electronic resource] /] / James A. Rawley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8262-6452-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Shades of blue and gray series

Disciplina

380.1/44/09421

Soggetti

Slave trade - England - London - History

Slave traders - England - London - History

Electronic books.

London (England) History 1800-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The transatlantic slave trade: a survey -- The port of London and the eighteenth-century slave trade: historians, sources, and a reappraisal -- Humphry Morice: foremost London slave merchant of his time -- Richard Harris, slave trader spokesman -- Henry Laurens and the Atlantic slave trade -- Further light on Archibald Dalzel -- John Newton: amazing grace -- London's defense of the slave trade, 1787-1807 -- Captain Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for violating the slave trade laws -- A summing up.