Saving Souls by Hilary Beckles
The process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TA) was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had long resisted its operation, abolition has traditionally been presented as a benevolent act by the British state acting under pressure from the intellectual classes and humanitarian activists. But the campaign to end the TA cannot be separated from the resistance struggle of the Africans themselves.In Saving Souls: The Struggle to end the Transatlantic Trade in Africans, the companion volume to Trading Souls, noted Caribbean historians Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd trace the African experience from capture, the horrors of the Middle Passage to liberation. Their story emphasises the contributions of the victims of the enslaved even while acknowledging the critical role of the British abolitionists. Readers will learn about: The structure and conduct of the trade in African peopleDetails of the resistance of Africans to capture, sale and transportationThe abolition movement - involving black and white, enslaved and free, male and female, Christian and non-Christian activistsLegacies of the 1807 ActThe final Abolition Acts, namely the 1805-1806 Order-in-Council and the 1807 Act are included as appendices for easy reference.
Shepherd, Verene A.: - Verene Shepherd is Director of the Centre for Reparation Research, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her many publications include I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Postcolonial Jamaica, Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica, and Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean. She worked with Sir Hilary McD. Beckles to edit and publish Lucille Mathurin Mair's pioneering thesis, A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789766373078 |
| ISBN 10 | 9766373078 |
| Title | Saving Souls |
| Author | Hilary Beckles |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica |
| Year published | 2007-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 138 |
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