Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits

Author:   James Walvin (University of York, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781119166221


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   13 January 2017
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Author:   James Walvin (University of York, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781119166221


ISBN 10:   1119166225
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   13 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Slavery in Western Life 1 1 A Sugar Bowl: Sugar and Slavery 11 2 Cowrie Shells: Slavery and Global Trade 37 3 Tobacco: The Slave Origins of a Global Epidemic 54 4 Mahogany: Fashion and Slavery 82 5 Stately Homes and Mansions: The Architecture of Slavery 104 6 Maps: Revealing Slavery 128 7 A Portrait: Pictures in Black and White 151 8 The Brooks: Slave Ships 173 9 A Book: Slavery and the World of Print 192 10 Chains: The Ironware of Slavery 218 11 Cotton: Slavery and Industrial Change 239 Conclusion 262 Index 265

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Suggestions form the author: Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop, 588 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215-3707 - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Caryl Phillips, Dept of English, Yale University, P.O. Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520-8302. - SENT 03/04/2017 David Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, P.O. Box 208206, 230 Prospect St, new Haven CT 065205-8206. - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Professor James Horn, Director, Historic Jamestown, 1368 Colonial Parkway, Jamestown, Virginia VA 23081. Ted Maris-Wolf, Vice-President and Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23185. Paul Ley, Editor, History Today, 2nd Floor, 9 Staple Inn, London WCIV 7QH - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Rob Attar, BBC History Magazine, Tower House, Fairfax St, Bristol, BS1 3BN. - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Professor John Oldfield, Director, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High St, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK - REVIEWED BOOK AS MANUSCRIPT Professor Gad Heuman, Editor, Slavery and Abolition, Dept of History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7VL, UK. - SENT 04/04/2017


Suggestions form the author: * Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop, 588 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215-3707 * Caryl Phillips, Dept of English, Yale University, P.O. Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520-8302. * David Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, P.O. Box 208206, 230 Prospect St, new Haven CT 065205-8206. * Professor James Horn, Director, Historic Jamestown, 1368 Colonial Parkway, Jamestown, Virginia VA 23081. * Ted Maris-Wolf, Vice-President and Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23185. * Paul Ley, Editor, History Today, 2nd Floor, 9 Staple Inn, London WCIV 7QH * Rob Attar, BBC History Magazine, Tower House, Fairfax St, Bristol, BS1 3BN. * Professor John Oldfield, Director, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High St, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK * Professor Gad Heuman, Editor, Slavery and Abolition, Dept of History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7VL, UK.


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James Walvin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor Emeritus at the University of York, and formerly a Visiting Fellow at Yale University. His books include Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire, 2E (2001); The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery (2007); A Short History of Slavery (2007); Britain's Slave Empire (2008); The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery (2011); The Slave Trade (2011); and Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2013).

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