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Author Rawley, James A

Title London, metropolis of the slave trade / James A. Rawley
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages)
Series Shades of blue and gray series
Shades of blue and gray series.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 181) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Slave trade -- England -- London -- History
Slave traders -- England -- London -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Slave trade
Slave traders
Sklavenhandel
Geschichte
Slavenhandel.
Havensteden.
SUBJECT London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078210
Subject England -- London
London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0826264522
9780826264527