Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery

by Richardson, David; Schwarz, Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9781846312441
• ISBN10: 1846312442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

Newly available in paperback, this edition is an important volume of international significance, drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson. The book sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery and addresses issues in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery, including African agency and trade experience. Emphasis is placed on the human characteristics and impacts of transatlantic slavery. It also opens up new areas of debate on Liverpool's participation in the slave trade and helps to frame the research agenda for the future.

Author Biography

David Richardson is professor of economic history at the University of Hull and coeditor of Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Anthony Tibbles is Keeper of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Suzanne Schwarz is professor of history at Liverpool Hope University and author of Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving, soon to be republished by Liverpool University Press.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Liverpool's Dominance in the British Slave Trade, 1740-1807	p. 14
African Agency and the Liverpool Slave Trade	p. 43
Human Capital in the British Slave Trade	p. 66
Liverpool's Slave Trade to the Colonial Chesapeake: Slaving on the Periphery	p. 98
The Liverpool Slave Trade, Lancaster and its Environs	p. 118
The Atlantic Slave Trade and African Ethnicities in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica	p. 138
The Wealth and Social Aspirations of Liverpool's Slave Merchants of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century	p. 164
'Cemented by the Blood of a Negro'? The Impact of the Slave Trade on Eighteenth-Century Liverpool	p. 227
Commerce, Civilization and Christianity: The Development of the Sierra Leone Company	p. 252
Abolitionism in Liverpool	p. 277
Index	p. 297
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