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In this new and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallel lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement—a trader, an owner, and a slave—are examined. John Newton (1725-1807), best known as the author of Amazing Grace, was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition. Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786) lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner€™s life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) was practically unknown 30 years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave speaks out for lives of millions who went unrecorded. All three men were contemporaries; they even came close to each other at different points o
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James Walvin has published widely on slavery and the slave trade. His titles include Atlas of Slavery, Black and White—which was awarded the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize—and The Quakers: Money and Morals, named as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
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"Addresses the enormity of the slave trade by looking in depth at three individuals inextricably bound up in it." —London Review of Books
"A remarkable and gripping story, asking profound questions." —Independent
"Much more than just a catalogue of horrors . . . James Walvin is extraordinarily alert to the contradictions within the human heart . . . Walvin is never blind to the horrors of slavery, nor to the responsibility of individuals for their actions. But he recognizes that the world was different then and that the institution of slavery encouraged individual acts of evil that would otherwise never have occurred." —Mail on Sunday
"Taken together, their stories provide a remarkably intimate insider’s perspective on the slave trade, and give us some sense of its staggering human cost." —Scotsman
"Clearly written and well-researched." —Daily Express
"How did Britain, the ‘slave trading poacher’ of the 18th century, transform herself into the ‘abolitionist game-keeper’ of the 19th century? . . . James Walvin, a renowned historian of black people in Britain, finds answers to this mystery in the lives of three men who contributed, sometimes unwittingly, to the demise of a seemingly unassailable evil." —Daily Telegraph
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0224061445
- ISBN 13 9780224061445
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages320
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