Letters From The Voyages Of The Slave Ship Pearl
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Letters From The Voyages Of The Slave Ship Pearl
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Author : Audra A. Diptee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Letters From The Voyages Of The Slave Ship Pearl written by Audra A. Diptee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Letters From The Voyages Of The Slave Ship Pearl
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Author : Audra Diptee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Letters From The Voyages Of The Slave Ship Pearl written by Audra Diptee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Great Britain categories.
"The barbarity of the enforced migration of Africans to the Caribbean and the realities of the transatlantic slave trade are fully revealed in Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship PEARL. The nonchalant accounts of the awful details of suffering and death are brought into sharp relief by the editors who reconstruct four voyages of the PEARL between 1785 and 1793. The ship was owned by Bristol businessman James Rogers, and the letters in this collection are but a small sample of the 15 boxes of correspondence comprising the Rogers papers held at The National Archives at Kew in the United Kingdom. Caribbean scholars who can scarcely access the original records are provided with a closer understanding of the complexities of slave trading. Written from several perspectives - the ship's doctor, the captains, slave traders on the African coast and Caribbean merchants - this assemblage offers a unique glimpse into the transatlantic slave trade. The letters, however, do not cover the perspective of the enslaved - muted and reduced to cargo, mentioned and recorded by number only. The book is divided into four parts for each of the selected voyages and each part is introduced with a short synopsis, each letter elucidated with explanatory notes. The work is enhanced by the inclusion of maps, tables and figures. Letters from the Voyages of the Slave Ship PEARL contextualises the continuing conversation of a painful past and is both enlightening and informative for the scholar, activist, and advocate alike."--Page 4 of cover.
The Hanging Of Thomas Jeremiah
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Author : J. William Harris
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-11-17
The Hanging Of Thomas Jeremiah written by J. William Harris 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 2009-11-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own: a free Black man "A searing portrayal of the central paradox of the American Revolution—the centrality of slavery to the struggle for political liberty."—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University "An insightful reflection and commentary on the vexed relationships among liberty, slavery, and the British Empire in the era of the Declaration of Independence."—Richard D. Brown, The Journal of Law and History Review In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred “Free Negros” in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of £1,000 (about $200,000 in today’s dollars), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slaveowner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites—who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot—of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British. Chief among the accusers was Henry Laurens, Charleston’s leading patriot, a slaveowner and former slave trader, who would later become the president of the Continental Congress. On the other side was Lord William Campbell, royal governor of the colony, who passionately believed that the accusation was unjust and tried to save Jeremiah’s life but failed. Though a free man, Jeremiah was tried in a slave court and sentenced to death. In August 1775, he was hanged and his body burned. J. William Harris tells Jeremiah’s story in full for the first time, illuminating the contradiction between a nation that would be born in a struggle for freedom and yet deny it—often violently—to others.
An Archaeology And History Of A Caribbean Sugar Plantation On Antigua
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Author : Georgia L. Fox
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2020-02-17
An Archaeology And History Of A Caribbean Sugar Plantation On Antigua written by Georgia L. Fox and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-17 with Social Science categories.
This volume uses archaeological and documentary evidence to reconstruct daily life at Betty’s Hope plantation on the island of Antigua, one of the largest sugar plantations in the Caribbean. It demonstrates the rich information that the multidisciplinary approach of contemporary historical archaeology can offer when assessing the long-term impacts of sugarcane agriculture on the region and its people. Drawing on ten years of research at the 300-year-old site, the researchers uncover the plantation’s inner workings and its connections to broader historical developments in the Atlantic World. Excavations at the Great House reveal similarities to other British colonial sites, and historical records reveal the owners’ involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and in the trade of rum and other commodities. Artifacts uncovered from the slave quarters—ceramic tokens, repurposed bottle glass, and hundreds of Afro-Antiguan pottery sherds—speak to the agency of enslaved peoples in the face of harsh living conditions. Contributors also use ethnographic field data collected from interviews with contemporary farmers, as well as soil analysis to demonstrate how three centuries of sugarcane monocropping created a complicated legacy of soil depletion. Today tourism has long surpassed sugar as Antigua’s primary economic driver. Looking at visitor exhibits and new technologies for exploring and interpreting the site, the volume discusses best practices in cultural heritage management at Betty’s Hope and other locations that are home to contested historical narratives of a colonial past. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
History Of The Liverpool Privateers And Letters Of Marque
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Author : Gomer Williams
language : en
Publisher: London, Heinemann
Release Date : 1897
History Of The Liverpool Privateers And Letters Of Marque written by Gomer Williams and has been published by London, Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with History categories.
Documents Illustrative Of The History Of The Slave Trade To America
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Author : Elizabeth Donnan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Documents Illustrative Of The History Of The Slave Trade To America written by Elizabeth Donnan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Slave trade categories.
From Africa To Jamaica
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Author : Audra A. Diptee
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2010-07-18
From Africa To Jamaica written by Audra A. Diptee and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-18 with History categories.
Rich with historical sketches of the life and experiences of slaves in Africa, on slave ships, and in Jamaica, this volume illustrates the way enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade. Audra Diptee's in-depth investigations reveal unexpected insights into the demographics of those captured in Africa and legally transported on British slave ships. For example, there is a commonly held belief that slave traders had a preference for adult males. In fact, the practicalities of slave raiding meant that women, children, and large groups of the elderly were particularly vulnerable during raids and were more often captured and made available for sale in the Caribbean. From Africa to Jamaica offers a new look at the Atlantic slave trade in its final years, fleshing out the historical portrait of the African men, women, and children who were sold in Jamaica and were thus among the last of the enslaved to put their stamp on Jamaican society. There is no comparable study that takes such a comprehensive approach, looking at both the African and Jamaican sides of the trade system.
From Independence To The U S Constitution
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Author : Douglas Bradburn
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2022-03-31
From Independence To The U S Constitution written by Douglas Bradburn and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-31 with History categories.
The "Critical Period" of American history—the years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789—was either the best of times or the worst of times. While some historians have celebrated the achievement of the Constitutional Convention, which, according to them, saved the Revolution, others have bemoaned that the Constitution’s framers destroyed the liberating tendencies of the Revolution, betrayed debtors, made a bargain with slavery, and handed the country over to the wealthy. This era—what John Fiske introduced in 1880 as America’s "Critical Period"—has rarely been separated from the U.S. Constitution and is therefore long overdue for a reevaluation on its own terms. How did the pre-Constitution, postindependence United States work? What were the possibilities, the tremendous opportunities for "future welfare or misery for mankind," in Fiske’s words, that were up for grabs in those years? The scholars in this volume pursue these questions in earnest, highlighting how the pivotal decade of the 1780s was critical or not, and for whom, in the newly independent United States. As the United States is experiencing another, ongoing crisis of governance, reexamining the various ways in which elites and common Americans alike imagined and constructed their new nation offers fresh insights into matters—from national identity and the place of slavery in a republic, to international commerce, to the very meaning of democracy—whose legacies reverberated through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the present day. Contributors:Kevin Butterfield, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon * Hannah Farber, Columbia University * Johann N. Neem, Western Washington University * Dael A. Norwood, University of Delaware * Susan Gaunt Stearns, University of Mississippi * Nicholas P. Wood, Spring Hill College
The Book Of The Ocean
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Author : Ernest Ingersoll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Book Of The Ocean written by Ernest Ingersoll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Ocean categories.
History Of The Liverpool Privateers And Letter Of Marque
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Author : Gomer Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26
History Of The Liverpool Privateers And Letter Of Marque written by Gomer Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with History categories.
First Published in 1967. Using a number of original sources of newspapers, rare documents, magazines and records this book offers the history of Liverpool privateering and the delicate subject of the Liverpool slave trading.