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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 (1721–86) 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 (1745–97) 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 of the Atlantic compass. But what held them together, in its destructive gravitational pull, was the Atlantic slave system.
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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
"James Walvin provides engrossing portraits of three individuals at the center of the slave trade." —Financial Times
"Clearly written and well-researched." —Daily Express
"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
"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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- PublisherVintage UK
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0712667636
- ISBN 13 9780712667630
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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