Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook212 pages3 hours
Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850
By Chris Evans
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such as woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in new industries or to be lavished on country mansions. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1650 and 1850, bringing the most up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh experience. New research by Chris Evans casts light on previously unknown episodes, such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in nineteenth-century Cuba, and illuminates in new and disturbing ways familiar features of Welsh history - like the woollen industry - that have previously unsuspected 'slave dimensions'. Many Welsh people turned against slavery in the late eighteenth century, but Welsh abolitionism was never a particularly powerful force. Indeed, Chris Evans demonstrates that Welsh participation the slave Atlantic lasted well beyond the abolition of Britain's slave trade in 1807 and the ending of slavery in Britain's Caribbean empire in 1834.
Unavailable
Author
Chris Evans
Chris Evans is also the author of the Iron Elves saga: A Darkness Forged in Fire, The Light of Burning Shadows, and Ashes of a Black Frost, as well as Of Bond and Thunder, and the nonfiction book Bloody Jungle: The War in Vietnam. He is a military historian and former editor for Random House and Stackpole Books. Born in Canada, he lives in New York City.
Read more from Chris Evans
A Darkness Forged in Fire: Book One of the Iron Elves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Light of Burning Shadows: Book Two of the Iron Elves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ashes of a Black Frost: Book Three of The Iron Elves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Voices from D-Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Of Bone and Thunder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Memoirs of a Fruitcake Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It’s Not What You Think Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Total Belief: How Bruce Rioch Brought the Good Times Back to Bolton Wanderers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFearless Freddie: The Life and Times of Freddie Mills Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Slave Wales
Related ebooks
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdventures of an African Slaver Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico--Guatemala Border Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiskito Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSavages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsZolitude Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSo Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDarkwater: Voices From Within the Veil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI'll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBritain and its internal others, 1750–1800: Under rule of law Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRacial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRace and empire: Eugenics in colonial Kenya Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTo Sin Against Hope: Life and Politics on the Borderland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDecadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian Families and the French Welfare State during Decolonization Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Social Science For You
My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific, and Strategic Prayer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women Don't Owe You Pretty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Slave Wales
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews