Trader, The Owner, The Slave, The Parallel Lives in the Age of Sl

Professor James Walvin

ISBN 10: 0224061445 / ISBN 13: 9780224061445

Editore: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2007

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There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. About twelve million Africans loaded onto the notorious slave ships, marshalled and transported in unbearable conditions to work the tropical lands of the Americas was a form of oppression, driven by economics on a global scale, which lasted for the best part of four centuries. The story of slavery embraces the lives of many millions of people: Africans, Europeans and Americans. Its scope and the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. This book therefore takes a unique course. It focuses on the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement - a trader, John Newton, an owner, Thomas Thistlewood, and a slave, Olaudah Equiano. Their parallel lives are microcosms of the larger story: together they provide an account of slavery at its peak and how it was finally brought to its knees. John Newton (1725-1807), best known as the author of "Amazing Grace", was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition. Thomas Thistlewood (1721-86) lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner's life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano (1745-97) was practically unknown thirty years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave speaks out for lives of millions who went unrecorded. All three men were contemporaries; they even came close to each other at different points of the Atlantic compass. But what held them together, in its destructive gravitational pull, was the Atlantic slave system. As the 200th anniversary of abolition draws near, a profusion of events and commemorations in Britain and abroad will mark the occasion. This book will offer a new view and a fresh interpretation of the world of slavery which, in 1807, was destined to end. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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• Titolo: Trader, The Owner, The Slave, The Parallel Lives in the Age of Sl
• Editore: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0224061445
• ISBN 13: 9780224061445
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

A unique and dramatic book about the Atlantic slave trade published to coincide with the abolition of slavery (April 1807).

Informazioni sugli autori

James Walvin has published widely on slavery and the slave trade. His titles include Atlas of Slavery, Black and White?which was awarded the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize?and The Quakers: Money and Morals, named as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.

James Walvin taught for many years at the University of York (UK). He has published widely on slavery and the slave trade. His book Black and White won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize.


From the Trade Paperback edition.