Outputs (6)

The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity (2010)
Thesis
Doulton, L. The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211170

This thesis explores the Royal Navy’s suppression of the slave trade in the western Indian Ocean between 1858 and the mid 1890s. Previous studies of this activity have offered narrative-style histories which have focused on operational matters and th... Read More about The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity.

The Routledge history of slavery (2010)
Book
Heuman, G., & Burnard, T. (Eds.). (2010). The Routledge history of slavery. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203840573

© 2011 Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard. All rights reserved. The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock... Read More about The Routledge history of slavery.

Worth, age, and social status in early modern England (2010)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J., & Shepard, A. (2011). Worth, age, and social status in early modern England. The Economic history review, 64(2), 493-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00533.x

This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts. It discusses the accuracy of statements of ‘worth’ provided by thousands of witnesses b... Read More about Worth, age, and social status in early modern England.

The slave next door: human trafficking and slavery in America today (2010)
Book
Soodalter, R., & Bales, K. (2010). The slave next door: human trafficking and slavery in America today. University of California Press

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In "The Slave Next Door" we find that slaves ar... Read More about The slave next door: human trafficking and slavery in America today.

British West Indies and Bermuda (2010)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2010). British West Indies and Bermuda. In R. L. Paquette, & M. M. Smith (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (134-153). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0007

© the various contributors 2010. All rights reserved. This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the British West Indies and Bermuda. The British West Indies differed from other places colonized by the British in... Read More about British West Indies and Bermuda.

(Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer (2010)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2010). (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer. In C. Kaplan, & J. Oldfield (Eds.), Imagining Transatlantic Slavery (33-46). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277106_3

In recent years we have become accustomed to thinking of abolition, and specifically the campaign against the transatlantic slave trade, as a grass roots movement. Narrating the history of the early abolitionist movement from below is problematic, ho... Read More about (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: The case of Benjamin flower and the Cambridge intelligencer.