The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
by James Walvin
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- ISBN 10
- 0712667636
- ISBN 13
- 9780712667630
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UK: Vintage UK Press, 2008. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2008 recent printing Vintage UK Press softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In this new and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallel lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement--a trader, an owner, and a slave--are examined. John Newton (1725-1807), best known as the author of Amazing Grace, was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition. Thomas Thistlewood (1721-86) lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner's life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano (1745-97) was practically unknown 30 years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave speaks out for lives of millions who went unrecorded. All three men were contemporaries; they even came close to each other at different points of the Atlantic compass. But what held them together, in its destructive gravitational pull, was the Atlantic slave system.
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James Walvin taught for many years at the University of York (UK). He has published widely on slavery and the slave trade. His book Black and White won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- Title
- The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
- Author
- James Walvin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0712667636
- ISBN 13
- 9780712667630
- Publisher
- Vintage UK Press
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- US history, Slavery, Slave owners, John Newton, Thomas Thistlewood, Olaudah Equiano, Black history, Transatlantic slave trade,
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- American History;
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