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As of 1778, French slave trade transported approximately 13,000 Africans as slaves to the French West Indies each year. [4] Slavery had been active in French colonies since the early 16th century; it was first abolished by the French government in 1794, whereupon it was replaced by forced labour before being reinstated by Napoleon in 1802. [5]
Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780 is a book by Nicholas M. Beasley published in 2009 by University of Georgia Press.This work presents a perspective on Christian institutions and customs in the Caribbean and Southern American colonies of Britain and how they influenced and impacted the institution of slavery between 1650 and 1780.
According to The National Archives (United Kingdom), [2] slavery was conducted as unfree labour in the British Caribbean and North American colonies from the 16th to 19th century. It is believed that the first slave trader was Sir John Hawkins , having conducted voyages in the early 1560's.
The British Empire and the Second World War (2007) pp 77–96. Kriz, Kay Dian. Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement: picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840 (Paul Mellon Centre, 2008), art history. Mawby, Spencer. Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947–69 (Springer, 2012). Pitman, Frank Wesley.
William Beckford's Roaring River Estate near Savanna-la-Mar, engraving (1778) after George Robertson. William Beckford of Somerley, Suffolk was the son of Richard Beckford (c. 1711–1756) and his friend Elizabeth Hay ("whom I have esteemed and do esteem in all respects as my wife" [2]), and was born in Jamaica in 1744 into an influential slave-holding family of colonial Jamaica. [3]
Thomas Thistlewood (16 March 1721 – 30 November 1786) was an English-born slave-owner, serial rapist, planter and diarist who spent the majority of his life in the British colony of Jamaica. Born in Tupholme , Lincolnshire , Thistlewood migrated to the western end of Jamaica where he worked as a plantation overseer before acquiring ownership ...
The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited is a 1962 book-length essay and travelogue by V. S. Naipaul. It is his first book-length work of non-fiction. [1] The book covers a year-long trip Naipaul took through Trinidad, British Guiana, Suriname, Martinique, and Jamaica in 1961.
The book notes that after decades of ideological debate, the slave trade ended in 1834, with compensation payments being paid to slave owners. [2] It describes modern racism in Scotland as a legacy of slavery, and it notes the modern tendency for Scottish people to be more comfortable talking about the Scottish role in slavery abolition rather ...