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Rawley, James A.

London, metropolis of the slave trade [electronic resource] / James A. Rawley. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003. - xvii, 192 p. - Shades of blue and gray series . - Shades of blue and gray series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181) and index.

The transatlantic slave trade: a survey -- The port of London and the eighteenth-century slave trade: historians, sources, and a reappraisal -- Humphry Morice: foremost London slave merchant of his time -- Richard Harris, slave trader spokesman -- Henry Laurens and the Atlantic slave trade -- Further light on Archibald Dalzel -- John Newton: amazing grace -- London's defense of the slave trade, 1787-1807 -- Captain Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for violating the slave trade laws -- A summing up.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slave trade--History.--England--London
Slave traders--History.--England--London

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
London (England)--History--1800-1950.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT1164.L66 / R39 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 380.1/44/09421