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The trader, the owner, the slave parallel lives in the age of slavery

In this new and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallel lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement-a trader, an owner, and a slave-are examined. John Newton (1725-1807), best known as the author of...

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Main Author: Walvin, James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Jonathan Cape 2007
Subjects:
Newton, John > 1725-1807
Thistlewood, Thomas > 1721-1786
Equiano, Olaudah > 1745-
Slave trade > Africa > History
Slave trade > Europe > History
Slave trade > America > History
Slave traders > Great Britain > Biography
Slaveholders > Jamaica > Biography
Slaves > Great Britain > Biography
Slaves > United States > Biography
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Three men among millions
  • The slave trader: John Newton (1725-1807)
  • A wayward youth
  • In Africa- Slave trader
  • Finding grace in slavery
  • From slaving to preaching
  • The slave trader as cleric
  • Reluctant abolitionist
  • The slave owner: Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786)
  • A Jamaican apprenticeship
  • Sugar and slaves
  • Tacky's revolt
  • An independent man
  • A refined and prospering man
  • The end to it all
  • The slave: Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
  • An African in England
  • Kidnapped
  • In miserable slavery
  • Prospering in slavery
  • A free man
  • Religion, redemption and America
  • Africa, abolition and the book

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