Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820

Oldfield, J. R.

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139344272

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From periphery to periphery: The Pennants' Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771-1812 (2011)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2011). From periphery to periphery: The Pennants' Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771-1812. In H. Bowen (Ed.), Wales and the British Overseas Empire : Interactions and Influences, 1650-1830 (114-142). Manchester: Manchester University Press

Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T. (2011). Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism. Slavery & Abolition, 32(2), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2011.568231

This essay focuses on the competing identities that came to be associated with British West Indians during the foundational period of British abolitionism. The essay evaluates the competing images of the West Indian planter class, paying particular a... Read More about Powerless masters: The curious decline of Jamaican sugar planters in the foundational period of British Abolitionism.

The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800 (2011)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Potofsky, A. (2011). The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800. French History, 25(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crq068

Three of the articles in this special issue (Covo, Forestier and Mandelblatt) were presented at a workshop devoted to the political economy of the French Caribbean and the French Atlantic, held at the University of Warwick on 30 November 2009. Thanks... Read More about The political economy of the French Atlantic world and the Caribbean before 1800.

Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800 (2011)
Book Chapter
Richardson, D. (2011). Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800. In D. Eltis, & S. L. Engerman (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 3: AD 1420-AD 1804 (563-593). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521840682.024

Any investigation of involuntary migration in the early modern period must recognize that trafficking in human beings was an important feature of life in both the New and the Old Worlds in the period 1500-1800. This chapter focuses on involuntary mig... Read More about Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800.

Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820 (2011)
Book
Oldfield, J. R. (2011). Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochia... Read More about Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820.