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11. Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery

    The Mobilisation of Public Opinion against the Slave Trade 1787-1807

    By J.R. Oldfield

    Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

    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 of popular politics in Britain....

    Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
12. Routes to Slavery

    Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Edited by David Eltis, David Richardson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

    Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities....

    Published July 30th 1997 by Routledge
13. Reconstructing the Black Past

    Blacks in Britain 1780-1830

    By Dr Norma Myers, Norma Myers

    Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

    This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers and journals, parliamentary...

    Published July 30th 1996 by Routledge
14. Against the Odds

    Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas

    Edited by Jane G. Landers

    Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

    The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum...

    Published April 30th 1996 by Routledge
15. Small Islands, Large Questions

    Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean

    Edited by Karen Fog Olwig

    Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

    This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean....

    Published July 31st 1995 by Routledge
16. Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

    Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers

    Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post Slave Societies

    This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West....

    Published December 30th 1993 by Routledge