Slavery Obscured The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port 1st edition by Madge Dresser 9781474291705 1474291708

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ISBN 10: 1474291708
ISBN 13: 9781474291705
Author: Madge Dresser 

Slavery Obscured aims to assess how the slave trade affected the social life and cultural outlook of the citizens of a major English city, and contends that its impact was more profound than has previously been acknowledged. Based on original research in archives in Britain and America, this title builds on scholarship in the economic history of the slave trade to ask questions about the way slave-derived wealth underpinned the city of Bristol’s urban development and its growing gentility. How much did Bristol’s Georgian renaissance owe to such wealth? Who were the major players and beneficiaries of the African and West Indian trades? How, in an ever-changing historical environment, were enslaved Africans represented in the city’s press, theatre and political discourse? What do previously unexplored religious, legal and private records tell us about the black presence in Bristol or about the attitudes of white seamen, colonists and merchants towards slavery and race? What role did white women and artisans play in Bristol’s anti-slavery movement? Combining a historical and anthropological approach, Slavery Obscured, seeks to shed new light on the contradictory and complex history of an English slaving port and to prompt new ways of looking at British national identity, race and history.

Slavery Obscured The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port 1st Table of contents:

1 Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Bristol and the trade in Africans before 1698

Bristol and the illegal slave trade

Bristol in the Caribbean

Bristol and the African trade, 1698-1750

Making money from the slave trade

John Duckinfield and other slave traders

Bristol as a slaving port

Notes

2 Cultural Exchanges: The Representation of Black People and the Black Presence in Bristol, c. 1700

Representation and race

Crewmen’s tales

Africans in Bristol: subaltern voices on the black presence

The case of the Old Calabar princes

Conclusion

Notes

3 Gentility and Slavery: Bristol’s Urban Renaissance Reconsidered, c. 1673-c. 1820

The city, 1676-1713

The urban renaissance in Bristol

Green mansions: stately homes and slave wealth

Gentility

Notes

4 Thinking about the Slave Trade: Abolition and Its Opponents, 1760-91

The culture of abolition

Literature, gender and abolition

Anti-abolition

The theatre of race

Evasive manoeuvres: Bristol anti-abolitionists and the middle passage

Political activity: anti-abolition rhetoric in Bristol

Notes

5 Abolition in a Cold Climate, 1792-1807

Respectable anti-slavery

Romanticism and anti-slavery

Sierra Leone and Bristol, 1787-99

Black people in Bristol in the age of abolition

Theatrical reactions: Bristol and slavery at a time of war

Theatrical rituals

Abolition subdued? The Caribbean interest and Bristol politics, 1800-7

Notes

6 The Struggle for Emancipation

Political radicals and the issue of colonial slavery

The election of 1812 and the West India interest

Changing public attitudes towards slavery, 1814-30

A political engagement?

Women and the anti-slavery campaign

The ‘slavery election’ of 1830

Claxton and slavery

Abolition and reform

Missionaries and revolt

Emancipation and reform in 1832

Notes

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