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Author Rawley, James A.

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

Imprint Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvii, 192 p.
Series Shades of blue and gray series
Shades of blue and gray series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 181) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Slave trade -- England -- London -- History.
Slave traders -- England -- London -- History.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780826264527
0826214835 (alk. paper)

 
    
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