03088nam 2200577 450 991080884810332120200514202323.01-350-98520-10-85772-855-50-85772-852-010.5040/9781350985209(CKB)3840000000338661(MiAaPQ)EBC4890551(MiAaPQ)EBC6033846(OCoLC)1128156842(CaBNVSL)mat50985209(CaBNVSL)9781350985209(UkLoBP)9781350985209(EXLCZ)99384000000033866120191118d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA short history of transatlantic slavery /Kenneth MorganFirst edition.London, England :I.B. Tauris,2019.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,2019.1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) illI.B. Tauris short historiesIncludes index.1-78076-387-5 1-78076-386-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-231) and index.The flows of the slave trade -- The slaving business -- Plantation slavery -- Slave resistance -- The abolition of the slave trade -- Slave emancipation."From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions - and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations - Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade's systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution."--Provided by publisher.I.B. Tauris short histories.Transatlantic slaverySlave tradeAtlantic Ocean RegionHistorySlave tradeHistory.381.4409182136.12.04EP-CLASSMorgan Kenneth1953-1698374NCaBNVSLUkLoBPBOOK9910808848103321A short history of transatlantic slavery4079779UNINA