Slavery in Small Things

Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits

By: James Walvin

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Paperback | 27 January 2017 | Edition Number 1

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It is now widely accepted that the eleven million African slaves who survived the Atlantic crossing helped to transform great swathes of the Americas - but less well known is just how much the African slave trade revolutionized forever the habits and tastes of the modern world. Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits explores the history of African slavery and its long-term cultural legacy through an analysis of a variety of commonplace objects and commodities. Topics and themes explored include: slavery and the trade of cowrie shells; the role of maps during the slave trade; tea, tobacco, and sugar in the days of the Atlantic slave trade; the human face of African slavery in portraiture; the impact of the printed word in undermining slavery; the paradox of slavery in the emergence of a vogue for expensive items such as mahogany furniture; and many more. Illuminating and thought-provoking, Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits reveals how slavery was an integral element in the historical development of Western life-and that its legacy still surrounds us even in the most commonplace of daily objects.

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Suggestions form the author: Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop, 588 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215-3707 - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Caryl Phillips, Dept of English, Yale University, P.O. Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520-8302. - SENT 03/04/2017 David Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, P.O. Box 208206, 230 Prospect St, new Haven CT 065205-8206. - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Professor James Horn, Director, Historic Jamestown, 1368 Colonial Parkway, Jamestown, Virginia VA 23081. Ted Maris-Wolf, Vice-President and Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23185. Paul Ley, Editor, History Today, 2nd Floor, 9 Staple Inn, London WCIV 7QH - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Rob Attar, BBC History Magazine, Tower House, Fairfax St, Bristol, BS1 3BN. - CONTACTED 03/04/2017 Professor John Oldfield, Director, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High St, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK - REVIEWED BOOK AS MANUSCRIPT Professor Gad Heuman, Editor, Slavery and Abolition, Dept of History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7VL, UK. - SENT 04/04/2017

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