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London, metropolis of the slave trade [electronic resource] / James A. Rawley.

By: Rawley, James A.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Shades of blue and gray series: Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003Description: xvii, 192 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Slave trade -- England -- London -- History | Slave traders -- England -- London -- History | London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 380.1/44/09421 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The transatlantic slave trade: a survey -- The port of London and the eighteenth-century slave trade: historians, sources, and a reappraisal -- Humphry Morice: foremost London slave merchant of his time -- Richard Harris, slave trader spokesman -- Henry Laurens and the Atlantic slave trade -- Further light on Archibald Dalzel -- John Newton: amazing grace -- London's defense of the slave trade, 1787-1807 -- Captain Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for violating the slave trade laws -- A summing up.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181) and index.

The transatlantic slave trade: a survey -- The port of London and the eighteenth-century slave trade: historians, sources, and a reappraisal -- Humphry Morice: foremost London slave merchant of his time -- Richard Harris, slave trader spokesman -- Henry Laurens and the Atlantic slave trade -- Further light on Archibald Dalzel -- John Newton: amazing grace -- London's defense of the slave trade, 1787-1807 -- Captain Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for violating the slave trade laws -- A summing up.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.