Publication
Liverpool University Press (2008), 320 pages
ISBN
1846310660 / 9781846310669
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CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Liverpool, the African Slave Trade and Abolition Thirty Years On
1 Liverpool’s Dominance in the British Slave Trade, 1740-1807
2 African Agency and the Liverpool Slave Trade
3 Human Capital in the British Slave Trade
4 Liverpool’s Slave Trade to the Colonial Chesapeake: Slaving on the Periphery
5 The Liverpool Slave Trade, Lancaster and its Environs
6 The Atlantic Slave Trade and African Ethnicities in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica
7 The Wealth and Social Aspirations of Liverpool’s Slave Merchants of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
8 ‘Cemented by the Blood of a Negro’? The Impact of the Slave Trade on Eighteenth-Century Liverpool
9 Commerce, Civilization and Christianity: The Development of the Sierra Leone Company
10 Abolitionism in Liverpool
Index
Contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Liverpool, the African Slave Trade and Abolition Thirty Years On
1 Liverpool’s Dominance in the British Slave Trade, 1740-1807
2 African Agency and the Liverpool Slave Trade
3 Human Capital in the British Slave Trade
4 Liverpool’s Slave Trade to the Colonial Chesapeake: Slaving on the Periphery
5 The Liverpool Slave Trade, Lancaster and its Environs
6 The Atlantic Slave Trade and African Ethnicities in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica
7 The Wealth and Social Aspirations of Liverpool’s Slave Merchants of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
8 ‘Cemented by the Blood of a Negro’? The Impact of the Slave Trade on Eighteenth-Century Liverpool
9 Commerce, Civilization and Christianity: The Development of the Sierra Leone Company
10 Abolitionism in Liverpool
Index