Spanning almost five centuries – the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth – the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period, the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular consumer commodity, and its real and imagined properties functioned as central metaphors for the cultural desires of West Indian Creoles.

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The largest, which gives more than any nation, is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His book presents the major intellectual, historical, and religious issues essential to understanding New World slavery and its devastating legacy.

At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position.

This study provides rigorous, focused research on a single, complex and controversial topic but also complicates some of our received notions about 'Oroonoko', slavery and abolition.Published 2006; ISBN 9780195174458 (hardback); 9780195174441 (paperback)Print ISSN 0144039X; Online ISSN 1742:9523Examining the postcolonial applications of Aphra Behn's re-entry into the literary canon, this edition presents seven 18th-century versions of the play and one poem. All texts are supplemented by original paratextual commentary, if that is known, and prefaced by a brief editorial commentary. It also includes a transcript of part of the unpublished journal of James Ramsay, a well-known abolitionist, in which he provides model answers for abolitionists asked to testify before a committee of enquiry.Collectively, these pamphlets provide a unique snapshot of a movement which became the prototype for all subsequent mass political and humanitarian campaigns, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the campaign to Make Poverty History.

Extensive introductions to every source offer a close reading of language and provide full historical and biographical background. http://www.palgrave.com/history/slavery.comThe book presents the first survey in English of the system of slavery and of the abolition of the slave trade and of slave emancipation in the Dutch Atlantic. The third largest donor is the lesser-known GAVI, which is an abbreviation for the The Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization.Yellow Vests: Many arrests, tensions in ParisToday the US is susceptible to revolutionTens of thousands of motorcycle riders took part in a protest against the country’s gruesome farm murders on Saturday. Nwaubani’s welcome report provides another dimension to the conversation about slavery, in Africa as well as in the United States.