The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies

Bryan Edwards

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• Bryan Edwards (1743-1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t... Lees meer

Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825

Henry Nelson Coleridge

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• Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798-1843) was plagued with spinal problems and rheumatism throughout his life. The purpose of his six-month voyage around the... Lees meer

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies

Bryan Edwards

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• Bryan Edwards (1743-1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t... Lees meer

The Crisis of the Sugar Colonies

James Stephen

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• Written as four public letters, this book condemns the intention by the French to reinstate older slavery practices on its colonies in the West Indies... Lees meer

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

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• Frederick Douglass (c.1818-1895) was born into slavery but escaped in 1838, quickly becoming involved in the abolitionist movement. Following publicat... Lees meer

The History of Jamaica

Edward Long

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• Edward Long's three-volume work marks a major turning point in the historiography of Jamaica, as the first attempt at a comprehensive description of t... Lees meer

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies 5 Volume Paperback Set

Bryan Edwards

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• Bryan Edwards (1743-1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t... Lees meer

The West Indies, Before and Since Slave Emancipation

John Davy

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• John Davy (1790-1868) was an English doctor and brother of the chemist Sir Humphrey Davy. After graduating from Edinburgh University, in 1814 Davy bec... Lees meer

The History of the Maroons

Robert Charles Dallas

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• Born in Jamaica, Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824) was prolific author in a variety of genres, dedicating all of his work to 'the defence of society a... Lees meer

Slavery as an Industrial System

Herman Jeremias Nieboer

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• First published in 1900, this systematic analysis of slavery in primitive societies from an ethnographical and economic viewpoint by Dutch scholar Her... Lees meer

The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs

John Elliott Cairnes

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• John Elliot Cairnes (1823-1875) was one of the leading economists of his day, holding professorships at Trinity College Dublin, University College, Ga... Lees meer

The History of Jamaica

Edward Long

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• Edward Long's three-volume work marks a major turning point in the historiography of Jamaica, as the first attempt at a comprehensive description of t... Lees meer

Captain Canot

Theodore Canot

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• The career of the Franco-Italian slave trader Theodore Canot (1804-60) was long and eventful. This intimate and sometimes graphic insight into the sla... Lees meer

The Anti-Slavery Cause in America and Its Martyrs

Eliza Wigham

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• Eliza Wigham (1820-99), Scots philanthropist and champion of women's rights, was raised as a Quaker, and from an early age was involved in fundraising... Lees meer

The Jamaica Planter's Guide

Thomas Roughley

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• Thomas Roughley published this Guide in 1823, based on his own experience. The book is an important source on Britain's richest colony, where the suga... Lees meer

The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

Thomas Clarkson

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• Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was a leading campaigner against slavery and the African slave trade. After graduating from St. John's College, Cambridge ... Lees meer

An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo

Bryan Edwards

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• Bryan Edwards (1743-1800) was a wealthy West Indian planter, politician and historian. He vigorously opposed the abolition of the slave trade, since t... Lees meer

The Life of William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce

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• William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a politician, philanthropist and evangelical Christian, now best known for his work to end the slave trade. Electe... Lees meer

Letters from the Havana, During the Year 1820

Robert Francis Jameson

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• Robert Francis Jameson was the British Commissioner of Arbitration stationed in Cuba between 1819 and 1823. This volume, first published in 1821, cont... Lees meer

The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

Thomas Clarkson

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• Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was a leading campaigner against slavery and the African slave trade. After graduating from St. John's College, Cambridge ... Lees meer

Antigua and the Antiguans 2 Volume Set

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• Antigua was named by Columbus in 1493, and permanently colonised by the British in 1632. The next two hundred years were full of upheaval that shaped ... Lees meer

Brief Notices of Hayti

John Candler

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• John Candler (1787-1869), a Quaker Abolitionist, visited the West Indies between 1839 and 1841, to study the situation of ex-slaves since they had obt... Lees meer

Emancipation in the West Indies

James a Thome, J Horace Kimball

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• Published in 1838 by the American Anti-Slavery Society, who had commissioned their investigative tour, Thome and Kimball's Emancipation in the West In... Lees meer

A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery

Granville Sharp

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• This work by the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp (1735-1813) brings together legal and historical documents, as well as the author's own legal... Lees meer