Representing Slavery
Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum
Published on 28. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-85331-967-2 (ISBN)
Description
Representing Slavery draws on the extensive collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, to offer unique insights into the histories and legacies of slavery, the slave trade and abolition from the mid-16th until the early 20th centuries.
Now available in paperback, the book illustrates and documents a wide range of objects relating to the slave trade, including maps, photographs, pamphlets and official publications, ethnographic documents, newspapers, paintings, prints and drawings.Ten specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide a fascinating historical framework, demonstrating the scale and brutality of slavery, the form and extent of African resistance, and the widespread nature of efforts to achieve abolition and emancipation.
Representing Slavery reveals, in stark detail, the lasting and multifaceted impact of slavery on Africa as a whole, Europe, and the Americas, as well as highlighting the importance of the often overlooked slave trades in East Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Now available in paperback, the book illustrates and documents a wide range of objects relating to the slave trade, including maps, photographs, pamphlets and official publications, ethnographic documents, newspapers, paintings, prints and drawings.Ten specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide a fascinating historical framework, demonstrating the scale and brutality of slavery, the form and extent of African resistance, and the widespread nature of efforts to achieve abolition and emancipation.
Representing Slavery reveals, in stark detail, the lasting and multifaceted impact of slavery on Africa as a whole, Europe, and the Americas, as well as highlighting the importance of the often overlooked slave trades in East Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Reviews / Votes
'The beautifully illustrated volume draws readers deeply into the experience of slavery and the long process of abolition, offering vivid perspectives on the slave trade in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds....Readers will be fascinated by the degree to which the legacies of the trade and its abolition extend to the present...Essential.' ChoiceMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Includes 120 colour and 76 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 269 mm
Width: 246 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1556 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85331-967-2 (9780853319672)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Douglas Hamilton | Robert J. Blyth
Representing Slavery
Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum
Book
08/2007
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
€81.00
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Persons
Dr Douglas Hamilton is a Reader in History at the University of Winchester. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Atlantic History at the University of Hull and Curator of 18th-century Maritime and Imperial History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2004 to 2006). Dr Robert Blyth is Curator, Imperial & Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. An Indian Ocean specialist, his publications include The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858-1947 (2003).
Content
Contents: Foreword; Introduction, Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth; Slavery and mass consumption: the dynamics of the Atlantic world, James Walvin; Slavery and African society, Paul Lovejoy; Through African eyes: the Middle Passage and the British slave trade, David Richardson; Slave life in the Caribbean, Douglas Hamilton; Abolition and emancipation, John Oldfield; The Royal Navy and the global suppression of slave trades, Robert Blyth; Black people in Britain, Hakim Adi; The material culture of slave shipping, Jane Webster; The lie of the land: slavery and the aesthetics of imperial landscape in eighteenth-century British art, Geoff Quilley; Popular graphic images of slavery and emancipation in nineteenth-century England, Marcus Wood. Catalogue: Artefacts; Books, pamphlets and official publications; Coins and medals; Ethnography; Manuscripts; Maps and charts; Material culture; Newspapers and press illustrations; Oil paintings; Photographs; Prints and drawings: Africa; Prints and drawings: Caribbean; Prints and drawings: North and South America; Prints and drawings: abolition campaigns; Prints and drawings: caricatures and social satires; Prints and drawings: portraits; Prints and drawings: ships and naval actions; Bibliography; List of contributors; Index.