Granville Sharp S Uncovered Letter And The Zong Massacre
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Granville Sharp S Uncovered Letter And The Zong Massacre
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Author : Michelle Faubert
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-02
Granville Sharp S Uncovered Letter And The Zong Massacre written by Michelle Faubert and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-02 with History categories.
This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the “Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.” In the letter, Sharp demands that the Admiralty bring murder charges against the crew of the Zong for forcing 132 enslaved Africans overboard to their deaths. Uncovered by Michelle Faubert at the British Library in 2015, the letter is reproduced here, accompanied by her examination of its provenance and significance for the history of slavery and abolition. As Faubert argues, the British Library manuscript is the only fair copy of Sharp’s letter, and extraordinary evidence of Sharp’s role in the abolition of slavery.
Freedom S Debtors
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Author : Padraic X. Scanlan
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-24
Freedom S Debtors written by Padraic X. Scanlan and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with History categories.
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade was abolished, anti-slavery activists in England profited, colonial officials in Freetown, Sierra Leone, relied on former slaves as soldiers and as cheap labor, and the British armed forces conscripted former slaves to fight in the West Indies and in West Africa. At once scholarly and compelling, this history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone draws on a wealth of archival material. Scanlan’s social and material study offers insight into how the success of British anti-slavery policies were used to justify colonialism in Africa. He reframes a moment considered to be a watershed in British public morality as rather the beginning of morally ambiguous, violent, and exploitative colonial history.
Memoirs Of Granville Sharp Esq
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Author : Prince Hoare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
Memoirs Of Granville Sharp Esq written by Prince Hoare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with Abolitionists categories.
Feeding The Ghosts
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Author : Fred D'Aguiar
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Feeding The Ghosts written by Fred D'Aguiar and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Fiction categories.
'The sea is slavery.' Inspired by a true story, this suspenseful and moving book chronicles an incident of courage and rebellion that took place aboard a disease-riddled slave ship, the Zong, returning from Africa. When illness threatens to infect all on board, the ship's captain orders his crew to seize the sick slaves - men, women and children - and throw them into the sea. But one female slave, Mintah, survives drowning and secretly climbs back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she attempts to rouse the remaining captives to rebel against the killings, becoming a dangerous force on the ship. A trial is held upon the ship's arrival to determine liability for the 131 missing slaves. The crew is nearly absolved of responsibility until Mintah's journal is produced, which directly contradicts the crew's accounts. The final words belong to Mintah, whose first-person account of her life after the Zong is troubling and dramatic. D'Aguiar's spare prose starkly reveals the inner lives of First Mate Kelsall, Mintah and the crew members as they face the moral weight of this atrocity. D'Aguiar's imagery is haunting, his characters' thoughts complex and the mood is darkly compelling.
Specters Of The Atlantic
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Author : Ian Baucom
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-16
Specters Of The Atlantic written by Ian Baucom and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the political and cultural archives of the black Atlantic but also to the history of modern capital and ethics. To apprehend the Zong tragedy, Baucom suggests, is not to come to terms with an isolated atrocity but to encounter a logic of violence key to the unfolding history of Atlantic modernity. Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of today’s finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literary theorists. In revealing how the Zong tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit.
Beyond Slavery And Abolition
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Author : Ryan Hanley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-08
Beyond Slavery And Abolition written by Ryan Hanley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with History categories.
Shows how black writers helped to build modern Britain by looking beyond the questions of slavery and abolition.
Zong
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Author : M. NourbeSe Philip
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-23
Zong written by M. NourbeSe Philip and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-23 with History categories.
A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry
Belle
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Author : Paula Byrne
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-04-29
Belle written by Paula Byrne and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode—a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery. Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.
Jamaica In The Age Of Revolution
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Author : Trevor Burnard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Jamaica In The Age Of Revolution written by Trevor Burnard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Jamaica categories.
"The book focuses on the history of Jamaica during the years between Tacky's Revolt, the American Revolution, and the beginnings of parliamentary abolitionist legislation in 1788"--
An Essay On The Slavery And Commerce Of The Human Species Particulary The African
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Author : Thomas Clarkson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1788
An Essay On The Slavery And Commerce Of The Human Species Particulary The African written by Thomas Clarkson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1788 with categories.