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Series
Cass library of African studies. General studies volume no. 137
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
12) 'Malleable at the European Will': British discourse on slavery (1784-1824) and the image of Africans
Author
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Series
Occasional paper volume no. 41
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it...