Freedom by James Walvin
'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resistance. In time, their defiance was to prove the crucial final factor in bringing down slavery itself.' James Walvin, in FreedomOver the years, probably no one has done as much as James Walvin to popularise the history of slavery and abolitionHis work is consistently innovative . . . Rather than tackling this story through organised anti-slavery, or what might be thought of as a white narrative, Walvin sets out to 'explore how slaves were the critical element in securing their own freedom', a very different emphasis that reflects growing
interest on both sides of the Atlantic in notions of black resistance . . . Walvin synthesises this complex global history with skill and ingenuity. Freedom is beautifully written and clearly organised . . . thought-provoking, rich in detail and imbued with an emotional intelligence that pushes us to imagine what slave life meant, especially during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A wide-ranging history of resistance during the Atlantic slave trade that reminds us how captives fought their miserable fates every step of the way. -- David Olusoga * BBC History Magazine *
JAMES WALVIN is the author of many books on slavery and modern social history. His book, Crossings, was published by Reaktion Books in 2013 and he is the author of Sugar: The World Corrupted, from Slavery to Obesity (Robinson, 2017). His first book, with Michael Craton, was a detailed study of a sugar plantation: A Jamaican Plantation, Worthy Park, 1670-1970 (Toronto, 1970). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006, and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472141422 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472141423 |
| Title | Freedom |
| Author | James Walvin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2019-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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