Title Slave Wales : the Welsh and Atlantic slavery, 1660-1850 / Chris Evans

Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 159 pages) Contents Acknowledgements; Slave Wales; Notes; Chronology; Guide to Further Reading; Index Summary Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, such as copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, for example woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in new industries or to be lavished on country mansions These book looks at Wales and slavery between 1660 and 1850, bringing the most up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh experience. New research by Chris Evans casts light on previously unknown episodes, such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in nineteenth-century Cuba, and illuminates in new and disturbing ways familiar features of Welsh history-namely, the woollen industry-that have previously unsuspected 'slave dimensions' Many Welsh people turned against slavery in the late eighteenth century, but Welsh abolitionism was never a particularly powerful force. Indeed, Chris Evans demonstrates that Welsh participation in the slave Atlantic lasted well beyond the abolition of Britain's slave trade in 1807 and the ending of slavery in Britain's Caribbean empire in 1834. --Book Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-151) and index Notes Print version record Subject Slave trade -- Wales -- History Slave trade -- West Indies, British -- History Antislavery movements -- Wales -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Antislavery movements Commerce Diplomatic relations Slave trade SUBJECT Wales -- Commerce Wales -- Foreign relations -- West Indies, British West Indies, British -- Foreign relations -- Wales Subject Wales West Indies -- British West Indies Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780708323045 0708323049 9781783161201 1783161205

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