James Walvin Books

The book delves into the multifaceted history of black slavery, presenting a comparative analysis of its impact across the English-speaking Americas. It explores various dimensions, including racial, social, economic, political, cultural, gender, and colonial aspects, offering fresh insights into the ongoing intellectual debates surrounding slavery. Through this thematic organization, readers gain a deeper understanding of the complexities and nuances of this significant historical issue.

The book offers a comprehensive exploration of slavery's profound impact on global history, drawing on James Walvin's extensive research and insights. He skillfully connects the narratives of various regions, including Jamaica, the Gold Coast, Liverpool, and Maryland, to illustrate the cultural transformations and inhumanity associated with the slave trade. With a focus on accessibility, the text serves both students and general readers, providing a crucial understanding of this pivotal historical topic. Walvin's lyrical writing enhances the emotional resonance of this important subject.

The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an historical story. The story of mankind's love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important historical origins. To take a simple example, two centuries ago, cane sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. For all its recent origins, today's obesity epidemic - if that is what it is - did not emerge overnight, but instead evolved from a complexity of historical forces which stretch back centuries. We can only fully understand this modern problem, by coming to terms with its genesis and history: and we need to consider the historical relationship between society and sweetness over a long historical span. This book seeks to do just that: to tell the story of how the consumption of sugar - the addition of sugar to food and drink - became a fundamental and increasingly troublesome feature of modern life

The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event

Argues that slavery transformed the tastes and economy of the western world Illustrated with frequent reference to individual lives New edition incorporates recent scholarly findings * Notes and bibliography have been updated. schovat popis

Describes the history of how the 'Africa Trade' formed the backbone of the British Empire. This book retells the story of how the international commodity market in Africans operated, how transportation of millions of Africans over thousands of miles developed and how the experience affected slaves both in bondage and then in freedom.

Focusing on the experiences of those who lived through slavery, this title discusses the origins, development, abolition and legacies of the slave trade.

'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resistance. In time, their defiance was to prove the crucial final factor in bringing down slavery itself.' James Walvin, in Freedom

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807. Thomas Thistlewood's (1721-86) unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner's life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies.