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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Papers presented to Parliament by His Majesty's command, in explanation of the measures adopted by His Majesty's government, for the melioration of the condition of the slave population in His Majesty's possessions in the West Indies, on the continent of South America, and at the Mauritius. [In continuation of the papers presented in the year 1829, no. 333.].
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate
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Author: Anti-slavery Monthly Reporter
Author: Zachary MacaulayPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers
Author: Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments
Author: E. N. ElliottPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
A History of Tasmania, from Its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time
Author: James FentonPublisher:
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Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.
Cotton is King
Author: David ChristyPublisher:
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Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Contested Bodies
Author: Sasha TurnerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081229405X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.
The Progress of the Nation
Author: George Richardson PorterPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Mauritius, 1810-33
Author: Anthony J. BarkerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349249998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This is a study of a unique slave colony and of antislavery conflicts prior to the Emancipation Act of 1833. In their hostility to a booming slave-based sugar economy, abolitionists produced dubious propaganda and quarrelled bitterly, without moderating the cruelty of the slave regime. Nevertheless the reforming impulse demanded documentation which illuminates the working lives and social interactions of a slave population - drawn from Africa, India, Madagascar and numerous smaller Indian Ocean islands - much more diverse than any in the Americas.