Representing Slavery: Art, artefacts and archives in the collections of the National Maritime Museum

by Douglas Hamilton (Editor), Robert J. Blyth (Editor), James Walvin (Contribution by), David Richardson (Contribution by), J. R. Oldfield (Contribution by), Hakim Adi (Contribution by), Marcus Wood (Contribution by), Geoff Quilley (Contribution by), Paul Lovejoy (Contribution by), Jane Webster (Contribution by)

Overview

Newly available in paperback, Representing Slavery draws on the extensive collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, to offer unique insights into the histories and legacies of slavery, the slave trade and abolition from the mid-16th until the early 20th centuries. The book illustrates and documents a wide range of objects relating to the slave trade, including maps, photographs, pamphlets and official publications, ethnographic documents, newspapers, paintings, prints and drawings. Ten specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide a fascinating historical framework, demonstrating the scale and brutality of slavery, the form and extent of African resistance, and the widespread nature of efforts to achieve abolition and emancipation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853319672
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	08/15/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 10.60(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Dr Douglas Hamilton is a Reader in History at the University of Winchester. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Atlantic History at the University of Hull and Curator of 18th-century Maritime and Imperial History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2004 to 2006). He specialises in the history of the 18th-century British Atlantic World, with a particular focus on the Caribbean. His books include Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 (2005; re-issued in paperback 2010).Dr Robert Blyth is Curator, Imperial & Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. An Indian Ocean specialist, his publications include The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858-1947 (2003).James Walvin is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York, UK. His many publications include An Atlas of Slavery and the Slave Trade (2005), The Trader, the Owner, the Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery (2007) and a Short History of Slavery (2007).David Richardson is Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, UK. He is a member of the editorial board of Slavery and Abolition and on the Advisory Board of the NEH funded Electronic Slave Trade Database Project at Emory University, Atlanta. Dr John Oldfield is Director of WISE (Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation) at the University of Hull, UK. His most recent publication is Transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, 1787-1820 (2013).Dr Hakim Adi is Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester, UK. He is a founder member of the Black and Asian Studies Association, which he chaired for several years. His publications include (co-editor with C. Bressey) Belonging in Europe: The African Diaspora and Work (2010).Marcus Wood is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK. His recent publications include Black milk: imagining slavery in the visual cultures of Brazil and America (2013) and The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation (2010), Geoff Quilley is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, UK. He was previously Curator of Fine Art at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. His publications include Art for the Nation:The Oil Paintings Collections of the National Maritime Museum (2006).Paul Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, Canada and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, and formerly a member of the UNESCO 'Slave Route' Project. He has published over 30 books on African history and African diaspora history, including Transformations in Slavery. A History of Slavery in Africa (2011, 3rd revised edition).Dr Jane Webster is Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology and Head of Archaeology at Newcastle University, UK. She is a former Caird Senior Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, and is currently completing a book entitled Material Culture of the Middle Passage.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction, Douglas Hamilton and Robert J. Blyth
Slavery and mass consumption: the dynamics of the Atlantic world, James Walvin
Slavery and African society, Paul Lovejoy
Through African eyes: the Middle Passage and the British slave trade, David Richardson
Slave life in the Caribbean, Douglas Hamilton
Abolition and emancipation, John Oldfield
The Royal Navy and the global suppression of slave trades, Robert Blyth
Black people in Britain, Hakim Adi
The material culture of slave shipping, Jane Webster
The lie of the land: slavery and the aesthetics of imperial landscape in eighteenth-century British art, Geoff Quilley
Popular graphic images of slavery and emancipation in nineteenth-century England, Marcus Wood. Catalogue: Artefacts
Books, pamphlets and official publications
Coins and medals
Ethnography
Manuscripts
Maps and charts
Material culture
Newspapers and press illustrations
Oil paintings
Photographs
Prints and drawings: Africa
Prints and drawings: Caribbean
Prints and drawings: North and South America
Prints and drawings: abolition campaigns
Prints and drawings: caricatures and social satires
Prints and drawings: portraits
Prints and drawings: ships and naval actions
Bibliography
List of contributors
Index.

Reading Group Guide

Dr Douglas Hamilton is Lecturer in History in the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Imperial and Maritime Studies at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He is author of Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 (2005).

Dr Robert Blyth is Lecturer in History at Queen's University Belfast, UK, and Visiting Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. An Indian Ocean specialist, he has published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and the International History Review. He is author of The Empire of the Raj: India, Eastern Africa and the Middle East, 1858-1947 (2003).

Professor James Walvin taught for many years at the University of York, UK. His many publications include An Atlas of Slavery and the Slave Trade (2005) and A Short History of Slavery (forthcoming 2007).

David Richardson is Professor of Economic History and Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery (WISE) at the University of Hull, UK. He has published extensively on the slave trade and is co-author of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-Rom (1999).

Dr John Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Southampton, UK. He has written numerous articles on slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world, including Chords of Freedom: Commemoration, Ritual and British Transatlantic Slavery (forthcoming 2007).

Dr Hakim Adi is Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at Middlesex University, UK. He is a founder member of, and currently chairs, theBlack and Asian Studies Association, and is a member of the Mayor of London's Commission on African and Asian Heritage. He has written widely on the history of the African Diaspora and Africans in Britain.

Marcus Wood is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK. His recent publications include Slavery, Empathy and Pornography (2002) and The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology (2003).

Dr Geoff Quilley is Curator of Fine Art at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK. He co-edited Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c.1700-1830 with John Bonehill (2005).

Paul Lovejoy FRSC is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of York, UK. He holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, is Director of the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, and is Research Proessor in the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull, UK. His recent publications include Transformations in Slavery (2nd edn 2000) and many edited volumes on slavery and the African diaspora.

Dr Jane Webster is a Lecturer in Historical Archaeology in the School of Historical Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She is a former Caird Senior Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, and is currently completing a book on The Material Culture of British Slave Shipping from 1680-1807.