Tobacco for the pipes of Englishmen, rum to temper the squalor of life between decks on British warships, coffee for the fashionable society of London’s clubs, sugar to sweeten the miserable diet of working people – these and other tropical products spilled forth from the cornucopia that was the slave colonies of the Americas. (Introduction)
James Walvin
James Walvin is Professor of History Emeritus at University of York. He is the author or editor of thirty books, most of which have been about the history of slavery and the slave trade. In 2007 he was curator for the Parliamentary Exhibition on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and was also advisor to the Equiano Exhibition held in the Birmingham Art Gallery.
A thematic approach
Black Ivory isn’t a chronological history – as you realise when only two chapters into it you find yourself reading about the famous legal case, Somerset versus…
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