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For much of the eighteenth century, Bristol was England's second city and, between 1730 and 1745, its premier slaving port. Based on original research in archives in Britain and America, Slavery Obscured builds on recent scholarship in the economic history of the slave trade to ask questions about the way slavederived wealth underpinned the city's urban development and its growing gentility. How much did Bristol's Georgian renaissance owe to such wealth? Who were the major players and beneficiaries of the African and West Indian trades? How, in an ever-changing historical environment, were enslaved Africans represented in the city's press, theatre and political discourse? What do previously unexplored religious, legal and private records tell us about the black presence in Bristol or about the attitudes of white seamen, colonists and merchants towards slavery and race? What role did white women and artisans play in Bristol's anti-slavery movement?

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Author

Madge Dresser

Publisher

Redcliffe Press Ltd

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781904537694

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, World History, Humanities