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Author | : S. D. Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2006-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113945885X |
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From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, and Europe. S. D. Smith examines the formation of this British Atlantic World from the perspective of Yorkshire aristocratic families who invested in the West Indies. At the heart of the book lies a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles and the commercial and cultural network they created with their associates. The Lascelles exhibited high levels of business innovation and were accomplished risk-takers, overcoming daunting obstacles to make fortunes out of the New World. Dr Smith shows how the family raised themselves first to super-merchant status and then to aristocratic pre-eminence. He also explores the tragic consequences for enslaved Africans with chapters devoted to the slave populations and interracial relations. This widely researched book sheds new light on the networks and the culture of imperialism.
Author | : Simon David Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : 9780511241857 |
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A study of the formation of the British Atlantic World from the perspective of Yorkshire aristocratic families who invested in the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s. S.D. Smith offers a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles and the networks they created with their associates.
Author | : Katie Donington |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526129507 |
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Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain’s Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts’s trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery.
Author | : Justin Roberts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110735515X |
Download Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement.
Author | : Abigail Leslie Swingen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300187548 |
Download Competing Visions of Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention to how and why slavery and England's participation in the transatlantic slave trade came to be widely accepted as central to the national and imperial interest by contributing to the idea that colonies with slaves were essential for the functioning of the empire.
Author | : Maxine Berg |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2023-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1509552707 |
Download Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place. In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson ‘follow the money’ to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses and filled them with luxuries. The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people. The result is a bold and unflinching account of how Britain became a global superpower, and how the legacy of slavery persists. Acknowledging Britain’s role in slavery is not just about toppling statues and renaming streets. We urgently need to come to terms with slavery’s inextricable links with Western capitalism, and the ways in which many of us continue to benefit from slavery to this day.
Author | : Simon P. Newman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812208315 |
Download A New World of Labor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the New World. By the early seventeenth century, more than half a million enslaved men, women, and children had been transported to the island. In A New World of Labor, Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor. Free and bound labor were defined and experienced by Britons and Africans across the British Atlantic world in quite different ways. Connecting social developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast, Newman demonstrates that the brutal white servant regime, rather than the West African institution of slavery, provided the most significant foundation for the violent system of racialized black slavery that developed in Barbados. Class as much as race informed the creation of plantation slavery in Barbados and throughout British America. Enslaved Africans in Barbados were deployed in radically new ways in order to cultivate, process, and manufacture sugar on single, integrated plantations. This Barbadian system informed the development of racial slavery on Jamaica and other Caribbean islands, as well as in South Carolina and then the Deep South of mainland British North America. Drawing on British and West African precedents, and then radically reshaping them, Barbados planters invented a new world of labor.
Author | : Barbara Lewis Solow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2004-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521533201 |
Download British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The proceedings of a conference on Caribbean slavery and British capitalism are recorded in this volume. Convened in 1984, the conference considered the scholarship of Eric Williams & his legacy in this field of historical research.
Author | : Barbara L. Solow |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739192477 |
Download The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean, and was an important determinant of the timing and pattern of the Industrial Revolution in England. The new industrial economy was no longer dependent on slavery for development, but rested instead on investment and innovation. Solow argues that abolition of the slave trade and emancipation should be understood in this context.
Author | : Kenneth Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521588140 |
Download Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development between 1660 and 1800.