Slave Wales : the Welsh and Atlantic slavery, 1660-1850 /

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Author / Creator:Evans, C. P. (Chris P.)
Imprint:Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 159 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Slave trade -- Wales -- History.
Slave trade -- West Indies, British -- History.
Antislavery movements -- Wales -- History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Antislavery movements.
Commerce.
Diplomatic relations.
Slave trade.
Wales -- Commerce.
Wales -- Foreign relations -- West Indies, British.
West Indies, British -- Foreign relations -- Wales.
Wales.
West Indies -- British West Indies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11244911
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ISBN:9780708323045
0708323049
9781783161201
1783161205
9780708323038
0708323030
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-151) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, such as copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, for example woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in new industries or to be lavished on country mansions.
These book looks at Wales and slavery between 1660 and 1850, bringing the most up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh experience. New research by Chris Evans casts light on previously unknown episodes, such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in nineteenth-century Cuba, and illuminates in new and disturbing ways familiar features of Welsh history-namely, the woollen industry-that have previously unsuspected 'slave dimensions'.
Many Welsh people turned against slavery in the late eighteenth century, but Welsh abolitionism was never a particularly powerful force. Indeed, Chris Evans demonstrates that Welsh participation in the slave Atlantic lasted well beyond the abolition of Britain's slave trade in 1807 and the ending of slavery in Britain's Caribbean empire in 1834. --Book Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Slave Wales. Univ of Wales Pr 2010 9780708323038