Descript |
xxiii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Proscription by degrees: the ending of the African slave trade to the United States / Kenneth Morgan -- "Most contemptible in the Union": South Carolina, slavery, and the constitution / Jonathan Mercantini -- African children and the transatlantic slave trade across time and place / Wilma King -- "Madda, Madda, yiera, yiera": African women slaves and the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade / Inge Dornan -- Slave trading entrepôts and their hinterlands: continued forced migrations after the middle passage to North America / Gregory E. O'Malley -- The M-factor in southern history / Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Peter A. Coclanis -- An ambiguous legacy: the closing of the African slave trade and America's own middle passage / Steven Deyle -- Blackness without ethnicity: some hypotheses on the end of the African slave trade in 1808, race, and the search for slave identity in early American Louisiana / Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec -- Irish American identity and the reopening of the Atlantic slave trade / David T. Gleeson -- 2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery / John Oldfield. |
ISBN |
9781611170962 (cloth) |
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1611170966 (cloth) |
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