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\nD e p t h S t u d ie s  \nhttps://archive.org/details/britainslavetrad0000rose  \n\n| H e    |  | in    | e    | m   |  a    | n    | n    | H i s t    | o r y   |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\nRosemary Rees  \nHeinemann Library,  \na division of Heinemann Publishers(Oxford)Ltd,Halley Court,Jordan Hill,Oxford OX28EJ  \nOXFORD LONDON EDINBURGH MADRIDATHENS BOLOGNA PARIS MELBOURNESYDNEY AUCKLAND SINGAPORE TOKYOIBADAN NAIROBI HARARE GABORONEPORTSMOUTH NH(USA)  \nC Rosemary Rees 1995  \nThe moral right of the proprietor has been assertedFirst published 1995  \n9596979810987654321  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data isavailable from the British Library on request.  \nISBN 0-431-07069-5  \nDesigned by Ron Kamen,Green Door Design Ltd,Basingstoke  \nIllustrated by Jeff EdwardsPrinted in Spain by Mateu Cromo  \nFront cover:A painting by a British naval officer,showing slaves below deck.  \nAcknowledgements  \nThe author and publisher would like to thank thefollowing for permission to reproduce photographs:  \nThe Bridgeman Art Library:1.8  \nThe Bridgeman Art Library/British Library:2.5,2.8The Bridgeman Art Library/British Museum:1.1The Bridgeman Art Library/City of Bristol Museum andArt Gallery:3.4  \nCambridge University Press/Royal GeographicalCollection:3.1  \nMary Evans Picture Library:4.8  \nE.T.Archive:2.3Fotomas Index:2.11  \nGuildhall Library,Corporation of London:3.7The Billie Love Historical Collection:4.11The Mansell Collection:1.4,4.5  \nThe Menil Collection,Houston/Hickey-Robertson:2.14National Library of Jamaica:2.16  \nNational Maritime Museum,London:Front coverNational Portrait Gallery:4.7Peter Newark's American Pictures:2.1  \nThe Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum,Barlaston,Staffordshire:4.4  \nEvery effort has been made to contact copyright holdersofmaterial published in this book.Any omissions will berectified in subsequent printings if notice is given to thepublisher.  \nDetails of written sources  \nIn some sources the wording or sentence structure hasbeen simplified to ensure that the source is accessible.  \nJ.W.Arrowsmith,Bristol Past and Present,Bristol,1881-2:3.3  \nWilliam Bosman,A New and Accurate Description of theCoast of Guinea,London,1705:1.6  \nMrs.Carmichael,Domestic Manners -Social Conditionsof the Population of the West Indies,Negro UniversitiesPress,1969:2.9,2.13  \nL.Comitas and D.Lowenthal,Slaves,Free Men,Citizens,Anchor Books,1973:2.15  \nW.H.B.Court,The Rise of the Midland Industries,1938:  \n3.5  \nM.Cranton,J.Walvin and D.Wright,Slavery,Abolitionand Emancipation,Longman,1976:4.3  \nWilliam Dickinson,Mitigation of Slavery,1814:2.6Bryan Edwards,History of the British Colonies in theWest Indies,London,1801:2.12  \nOlaudah Equiano,The Interesting Narrative of the Life ofOlaudah Equiano,London,1789:1.5,1.7,2.2Peter Fryer,Staying Power:The History of Black Peoplein Britain,Pluto,1984:4.1,4.2  \nC.L.R.James,The Black Jacobins,Allison and Busby,1980:2.7,4.9  \nJohn Matthews,AVoyage on the river Sierra Leone onthe Coast of Africa,London,1788:1.3Ramsey Muir,A History of Liverpool,1907:3.2Lady Nugent,Lady Nugent's Journal of her Residence inJamaica from 1801-5,Institute of Jamaica,1966:2.10Malachy Postlethwayt,The African Trade,the GreatPillar and Support of the British Plantation Trade inAmerica,J.Robinson,1746:3.6  \nSackville-West,Knoll and the Sackvilles,1922:4.6James Walvin,Black Ivory,HarperCollins,1992:1.2,2.4  \nNote  \nIn this book some of the words are printed in boldtype.This indicates that the word is listed in theglossary on pages 30-1.The glossary gives a briefexplanation of words that may be new to you.  \nUnit 1What was the Slave Trade?  \n4  \nUnit 2What was life like for black slaves?  \n10  \nUnit 3Who benefited from the Slave Trade?18  \nUnit 4Why was the Slave Trade abolished?22  \nA Mystery  \n28  \nUnit 5  \n30  \nGlossary  \n32  \nIndex  \nTURRIFF ACADEM)LIBRARY  \n# 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