Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port /: the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Madge Dresser.
• Authors: Dresser, Madge
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Notes; 1 Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Bristol and the trade in Africans before 1698; Bristol and the illegal slave trade; Bristol in the Caribbean; Bristol and the African trade, 1698-1750; Making money from the slave trade; John Duckinfield and other slave traders; Bristol as a slaving port; Notes; 2 Cultural Exchanges: The Representation of Black People and the Black Presence in Bristol, c. 1700-75; Representation and race; Crewmen's tales Africans in Bristol: subaltern voices on the black presenceThe case of the Old Calabar princes; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Gentility and Slavery: Bristol's Urban Renaissance Reconsidered, c. 1673-c. 1820; The city, 1676-1713; The urban renaissance in Bristol; Green mansions: stately homes and slave wealth; Gentility; Notes; 4 Thinking about the Slave Trade: Abolition and Its Opponents, 1760-91; The culture of abolition; Literature, gender and abolition; Anti-abolition; The theatre of race; Evasive manoeuvres: Bristol anti-abolitionists and the middle passage Political activity: anti-abolition rhetoric in BristolNotes; 5 Abolition in a Cold Climate, 1792-1807; Respectable anti-slavery; Romanticism and anti-slavery; Sierra Leone and Bristol, 1787-99; Black people in Bristol in the age of abolition; Theatrical reactions: Bristol and slavery at a time of war; Theatrical rituals; Abolition subdued? The Caribbean interest and Bristol politics, 1800-7; Notes; 6 The Struggle for Emancipation; Political radicals and the issue of colonial slavery; The election of 1812 and the West India interest; Changing public attitudes towards slavery, 1814-30 A political engagement?Women and the anti-slavery campaign; The 'slavery election' of 1830; Claxton and slavery; Abolition and reform; Missionaries and revolt; Emancipation and reform in 1832; Notes; Conclusion: Thresholds of Recollection; Notes; Select Bibliography of Unpublished Primary Sources; Index
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 382/.44/0942393; Slave trade -- England -- Bristol -- History; Slavery -- England -- Bristol -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery; Slave trade; Slavery; Social conditions; Bristol (England) -- Social conditions; England -- Bristol; Electronic books; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474291705; 1474291708
• Related ISBNs: 9780826448750; 0826448755; 0826448763; 9780826448767
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 9, 2016).
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