A short history of transatlantic slavery / / Kenneth Morgan

• Autore: Morgan Kenneth <1953->
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2019; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) : ill
• Disciplina: 381.44091821
• Soggetto topico: Slave trade - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Slavery & abolition of slavery
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 36.12.04
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-231) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The flows of the slave trade -- The slaving business -- Plantation slavery -- Slave resistance -- The abolition of the slave trade -- Slave emancipation.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."--
• Altri titoli varianti: Transatlantic slavery
• Titolo autorizzato: A short history of transatlantic slavery
• ISBN: 1-350-98520-1; 0-85772-855-5; 0-85772-852-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511620003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: I.B. Tauris short histories.