Saving Souls: The Struggle to End the Transatlantic Trade in Africans

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The process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had long resisted its operation, abolition has traditionally been presented as a benevolent act by the British state acting under pressure from the intellectual classes and humanitarian activists. But the campaign to end the TTA cannot be separated from the resistance struggle of the Africans themselves. In Saving Souls: The Struggle to end the Transatlantic Trade in Africans, the companion volume to Trading Souls, noted Caribbean historians Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd trace the African experience from capture, the horrors of the Middle Passage to liberation. Their story emphasises the contributions of the victims of the enslaved even while acknowledging the critical role of the British abolitionists. Contents List of Illustrations Foreword • Percival J. Patterson Preface Introduction 1. The Transatlantic Trade in Africans and African Resistance on the Continent and on the Middle Passage 2. African and Caribbean Abolitionists in Action 3. European and North American Abolitionists in Action 4. Freedom Delayed: The Trade in Africans after 1807 5. Legacies: Persistent Racism and New African Identities Conclusion Appendices Appendix 1: Ending the Trade to the Crown Colonies: The 1805–1806 Order-in-Council Appendix 2: Ending the Trade to the Rest of the British Colonized Territories: The 1807 Act Bibliography