Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World

New Sources and New Findings
Herausgeber: Landers, Jane

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Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Swedish materials from Europe, Africa and Latin America and that date from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781138633810
• ISBN-10: 113863381X
• Artikelnr.: 57054334

Autorenporträt

Jane Landers is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, and Director of the Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies website (Vanderbilt.edu/esss). She is the author of several books, including Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (2010) and Black Society in Spanish Florida (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Sources and New Findings for Slavery and Abolition in the
Atlantic World 1. 'The Kingdom of Angola is not Very Far from Here': The
South Atlantic Slave Port of Buenos Aires, 1585-1640 2. The
Seventeenth-century Slave Trade in the Documents of the English, Dutch,
Swedish, Danish and Prussian Royal Slave Trading Companies 3. Sailing
Through the Sacraments: Ethnic and Cultural Geographies of a Port and Its
Churches-Cartagena de Indias 4. Heathens among the Flock: Converting
African-Born Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro 5. Catholic
Conspirators? Religious Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Cuba 6. Making
Abolition Brazilian: British Law and Brazilian Abolitionists in
Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Pernambuco