Outputs (173)

Women, Wealth and Power : special conference edition of Women’s History Review (2007)
Book
Spicksley, J., & Capern, A. (2007). A. L. Capern, & J. Spicksley (Eds.). Women, Wealth and Power : special conference edition of Women’s History Review. Routledge

'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2007)
Book
Oldfield, J. (2007). 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Manchester University Press

How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? 'Chords of freedom' sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed int... Read More about 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery.

Britain and the Slave Trade (2002)
Book Chapter
Oldfield, J. (2002). Britain and the Slave Trade. In H. Dickinson (Ed.), A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain (489-498). Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470998885.ch38

Transatlanticism, slavery, and race (2002)
Journal Article
Oldfield, J. R. (2002). Transatlanticism, slavery, and race. American Literary History, 14(1), 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/14.1.131

Slave rebellions in the discourse of British anti-slavery (2002)
Thesis
Matthews, G. 1. Slave rebellions in the discourse of British anti-slavery. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210229

Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786 (2000)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2000). Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786. In C. Daniels, & M. V. Kennedy (Eds.), Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America (237-253). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203949054-21

One and a half months after arriving in Jamaica, John Thistlewood, a young Englishman residing with his uncle, Thomas, an overseer on a Westmoreland sugar plantation, had a nasty shock. On April 15,1764, John " Hard a great Noise�? and went to invest... Read More about Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786.

'Unnatural and unexpected vicissitudes' : British maritime enterprise and the American civil war, 1856 to 1870 (1999)
Thesis
Ashcroft, N. R. 'Unnatural and unexpected vicissitudes' : British maritime enterprise and the American civil war, 1856 to 1870. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215033

Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786 (1999)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (1999). Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786. In C. Daniels, & M. V. Kennedy (Eds.), Over the threshold : intimate violence in early America (237-253). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203949054

© 1999 by Routledge. One and a half months after arriving in Jamaica, John Thistlewood, a young Englishman residing with his uncle, Thomas, an overseer on a Westmoreland sugar plantation, had a nasty shock. On April 15,1764, John " Hard a great Noise... Read More about Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786.

Popular politics and British anti-slavery: The mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade 1787-1807 (1998)
Book
Oldfield, J. R. (1998). Popular politics and British anti-slavery: The mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade 1787-1807. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203061794

In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth... Read More about Popular politics and British anti-slavery: The mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade 1787-1807.

Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African company in Jamaica, 1674-1708 (1996)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (1996). Who bought slaves in early America? Purchasers of slaves from the Royal African company in Jamaica, 1674-1708. Slavery & Abolition, 17(2), 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440399608575185