David Richardson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3614487 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Richardson |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Richardson |
| ASSINATURA | RICHARDSON D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1864-3907 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 127 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 699 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1953 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New Wor…
Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution
One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Spain). It permits calculation of the trade's profitability (total net r…
‘[Trails] and tribulations’
The mechanisms underlying occupational socialisation and wash-out following formal coach education are not well understood. This study explores eight cycling coaches (6 males, 2 females) navigating these challenges as they transition into their everyday coaching role. Using ethnographic interview data (collected over 18 months) and inspired by creative non-fiction (CNF) literary techniques, the accounts of three characters (Emily, Mark, and Yvett…
How did we get here; a historical and social exploration of the construction of English FA coach education
Formal coach education, such as courses experienced by coaches, is part of a wider education system, constructed by policy developers, course designers and coach educators. To date, research has explored the complex micro-pedagogical interactions between coach educators and coaches on courses, yet there is little understanding of the historical and social influences on the development of these systems. In response, this study analyses the social …
Principles and Agents
Hunting for rents
In August 1808, L. J. Herbert, a former dealer in slaves at Lagos, acknowledged that he still owed some 128 slaves or goods of equal value to Thomas Lumley & Co. of London on account of goods advanced to him in 1807 by one of Lumley’s captains. Export prices of slaves in West Africa rose sharply in 1795-1807. As far as applying the fisheries model to the slave trade is concerned, slaving activities in Africa do not seem to have evolved to the poi…
Managing the “Train of Uncertainty”
The chapter analyses the structure of Liverpool’s trade in Atlantic Africa to assess its impact on the city’s performance as a slave port. An an online slave voyage website reveals a heavy concentration of Liverpool activity in the Bight of Biafra in the Gulf of Guinea, with Bonny in the Niger Delta and Calabar on the Cross River being the two leading suppliers of slaves to Liverpool ships before 1807. Such a concentration of trade at specific po…
Finding “a Pathway for the Humanities”
Abolitionists understood that public outrage might induce Parliament to reconsider the status of British slaving, but that ultimately building a legislative majority for intervention was pivotal to their success. The chapter reveals the obstacles they faced, noting the political influence of “slave power” in Britain, the opposition of sections of government to change, and radical shifts in international politics associated with revolutions in Fra…
Principles and Agents
Britain’s abolition of its slave trade in 1807 was a defining moment in modern history, yet it continues to excite controversy, in part because the nation dominated European trafficking of Africans to America in 1783–1807. Through an analysis of market conditions at the British, African, and West Indian points of the infamous triangular trade, as well as of issues of credit and of agency dilemma involved in their integration, this book seeks to e…
Reaching “the Common People”
Evidence of content analysis shows that newspaper reporting of the slave trade grew substantially over the eighteenth century, widening and deepening the reading public’s knowledge of it and Africa decades before abolitionists looked to use the press to promote their campaign from the late 1780s. The chapter explores the press’s role as mirror and shaper of public opinion in tandem with other publications. It also focuses on the reporting of cond…
The “Wheel of Unfathomable Commerce”
Credit was fundamental to growth of British slaving activity, whether to outfit voyages, to support transactions in Africa, or to facilitate Caribbean planter slave purchases, but so too was trust by investors in slave voyages in the agents—shipmasters and colonial factors—who acted abroad on their behalf. Failures to manage principal-agent (or agency dilemma) issues implicit in slaving undermined financially the English Royal African Company by …
“Vulgar Error”
Though formal moves to end British slaving only began in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, questions about the ethical and legal premises on which it rested had begun to emerge a century earlier. Largely based on religion but shaped by ongoing debates about the Stuart crown and English liberties, issues relating to the pursuit of slaving became entangled in debates about African humanity, natural rights, royal prerogative, and the natur…
On the “Heroism of Principle”
The concluding chapter explores the relative importance of agency and ideology in shaping the history of the British slave trade. Comparing the processes of slave trading and abolitionism, it notes how the former was integral to mercantilist ideas of imperialism, while the latter reflected a revulsion against slavery linked to humanitarian principles and an underlying sense of national identity. Success in articulating such beliefs, however, rest…
A “Diabolical Traffic”
Britain’s leading position in transatlantic slave trafficking elevated the significance historically of its abolition, but why it assumed that position is usually unexplained. This and the two following chapters address that issue. It begins here with identifying how, within a mercantilist framework, demand for enslaved Africans evolved in conjunction with the economics and demography of sugar cultivation in the British West Indies for export to …
Prices of Slaves in West and West-Central Africa
Currently available price series for slaves during the eighteenth century need to be treated with much caution, and it seems unlikely that large quantities of new evidence will be unearthed. Further progress toward the creation of more reliable price series will thus require new methods of estimation. In this paper, a new price series for slaves at the African coast is calculated using data relating to the number of slaves shipped from the coast …
Whitehaven and the eighteenth-century British Slave Trade
It is widely recognised by historians that Bristol, Liverpool and London dominated the eighteenth-century British slave trade. This chapter examines the history of Whitehaven’s involvement in the trade. The century after the Stuart Restoration witnessed a substantial growth of Whitehaven’s population and general prosperity. The cornerstone of this prosperity was the coal trade which, according to available figures, may have grown six-fold between…
Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700-1810
During the past two decades historians have made major advances in reconstructing the volume and coastal distribution of slave exports by American and European traders from the west coast of Africa during the eighteenth century. According to Lovejoy’s calculations, Curtin’s original estimate of slave imports into America and the Atlantic Basin between 1451 and 1867 was only about 2 per cent lower than the figure implied by later research. During …
Invading Ecological Networks
Until now, biological invasions have been conceptualised and studied mainly as a linear process: from introduction to establishment to spread. This volume charts a new course for the field, drawing on key developments in network ecology and complexity science. It defines an agenda for Invasion Science 2.0 by providing new framings and classification of research topics and by offering tentative solutions to vexing problems. In particular, it conce…
Sars-CoV-2 seroprevalence and risk factors among meat packing, produce processing, and farm workers
Meat packing, produce processing, and farm workers are known to have an elevated risk of COVID-19, but occupational risk factors in this population are unclear. We performed an observational cohort study of meat packing, produce processing, and farm workers in North Carolina in fall 2020. Blood, saliva, and nasal turbinate samples were collected to assess for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity. Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity were investigated …
An examination of content knowledge in formal coach education curriculum
Sport coaching can be seen as an interdisciplinary endeavour, where coaches integrate multiple disciplinary knowledges to support participants achieving a variety of desirable outcomes (e.g. learn new skills, meet new people, develop greater confidence). Limited research however has considered what knowledge has been used as the basis for curricula, or how it has been structured into formal coach education courses. This is remiss because coaches …
Slavery in the Medieval Millennium
General readers still lack awareness of the prevalence of slavery between the classical period and the post-1420 wider Atlantic World. This phenomenon is not just temporal but geographic, in that Asia, the Indian Ocean World, Amerindian societies and Oceania still receive far less scholarly attention than their populations warrant. This situation exists despite the rapid growth of interest in the general subject of slavery in recent decades. The …
The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume – the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery – covers the period betw…
Creating and disseminating coach education policy
By examining on-course pedagogical practices, recent research has sought to inform the development of National Governing Body (NGB) coach education courses. Coach education programmes are, however, social constructs, and are influenced by policies and socio-economic factors. To inform future provision, there is a need to understand the construction of policy and the influences affecting course design. This study examined how the English Football …
Educator perspectives on factors influencing children’s school-based physical activity
Formative research is an important first step in the design and development of children’s school-based physical activity (PA) interventions. Exploration of educator [headteacher and physical education (PE)-co-ordinator] perceptions toward the promotion of school-based PA, including PE delivery has however been limited. This study took a socio-ecological approach to explore the barriers and facilitators of children’s school-based PA from the persp…
A vision for improving global flood forecasting
Global hydrological forecasts are now produced operationally on a daily basis. However, the lack of global river discharge observations precludes routine flood forecast evaluation, an essential step in providing more skilful and reliable forecasts. A vision is expounded for greater and more timely exchange of global river discharge observations, which would result in improved flood awareness and socioeconomic benefits in some of the World’s most …
Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History
Paul E. Lovejoy, David Richardson, Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History: The Institutional Foundations of the Old Calabar Slave Trade, The American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 2 (Apr., 1999), pp. 333-355
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700–1810
Using new evidence on the British, French and North American slave-carrying trades, this article seeks to revise Lovejoy's recently published estimates of the levels of slave exports from West and West-Central Africa in the eighteenth century. The figures suggest that Lovejoy's estimate of the total volume of slave exports from the west coast of Africa to America between 1700 and 1810 was probably reasonably accurate, being only 8 per cent lower …
Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History
Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History: The Institutional Foundations of the Old Calabar Slave Trade Paul E. Lovejoy, Paul E. Lovejoy Distinguished Research Professor of History York University, Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Richardson David Richardson professor of economic history and Deputy-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences University of Hull, UK Search for other works by this author …
Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Atlantic Slave Trade
David Richardson, Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Atlantic Slave Trade, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 1, New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Jan., 2001), pp. 69-92
Slave prices, the African slave trade, and productivity in the Caribbean, 1674-18071
We draw wide-ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they arrived in the Americas from Africa between 1674 and 1807. Prices for the product that most slaves were destined to produce-sugar-are also available. Together the comprehensive series allow us to derive annual measures of average slave productivity and to compare productivity trends across di…
This Horrid Hole’
This article suggests that differences in local political structures and credit protection regimes largely account for Bonny's displacement of Old Calabar as the principal slave port of the Bight of Biafra in the eighteenth century, despite Bonny's reputation for being particularly unhealthy for Europeans. We argue that this displacement occurred in the 1730s, several decades earlier than previously thought. We suggest that this was made possible…
Agency and Diaspora in Atlantic History
Broadly speaking, two contrasting models dominate interpretations of Atlantic history. One draws on Old World influences to explain the nature of societies and cultures in the Americas, while the other assigns primacy to the New World environment. One stresses continuities, the other change. The polar extremes are persistence and transience, inheritance and experience. An emphasis on inheritance prioritizes the cultural baggage that migrants brou…
The Business of Slaving
The use of people as pawns to underpin credit was widespread in western Africa during the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. This study examines where and when pawns were used in commercial transactions involving European slave merchants in the period c . 1600–1810. It is shown that European merchants relied on pawnship as an instrument of credit protection in many places, though not everywhere. Europeans apparently did not hold pawns at Ouid…
The Costs of Coercion
Competing Markets for Male and Female Slaves
Paul E. Lovejoy, David Richardson, Competing Markets for Male and Female Slaves: Prices in the Interior of West Africa, 1780-1850, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1995), pp. 261-293
Prices of Slaves in West and West‐central Africa
Currently available price series for slaves during the eighteenth century need to be treated with much caution, and it seems unlikely that large quantities of new evidence will be unearthed. Further progress toward the creation of more reliable price series will thus require new methods of estimation. In this paper, a new price series for slaves at the African coast is calculated using data relating to the number of slaves shipped from the coast …
British Abolition and its Impact on Slave Prices Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783–1850
This article challenges the widely held view that slave prices in Africa fell substantially and permanently after Britain abolished its slave trade in 1807. Examination of slave-price data shows that, when allowance is made for movements in prices of trade goods bartered for slaves, real slave prices fell sharply between 1807 and 1820 but that the fall was confined to West Africa. In West Central Africa prices remained steady before 1820. Thereaf…
Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery
TLS - reviewed by Howard Temperley The campaign for the abolition of the slave has often been described but never better than by J R Oldfield in this account... necessary reading for students of Britains abolition of the slave trade International Journal of African Historical Studies Albion - Judith Jennings, Kentucky Foundation for Women- Oldfields book has much to commend it, and I highly recommend it to readers interested in the nation-wide sc…
Business Networking in the Industrial Revolution
Productivity in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard Mortality
The mortality of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic crossing has long preoccupied historians but the relationship between slave traders' purchasing strategies and slave mortality rates in transit has escaped close investigation. We address these issues by using records of 39 eighteenth-century voyages of the Dutch Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie. These allow shipboard mortality rates of enslaved Africans to be estimated. They also reveal previo…
The Slaves' Economy
Slavery and Bristol's ‘golden age’
Bristol's eighteenth century ‘golden age’ has conventionally been linked to the rise of slavery in British America after 1660. This paper seeks to add substance to this linkage by exploring Bristol's involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, without which slavery in the Americas could not have developed to the level it did, and goes on to explore the impact of slave trafficking and the trades in slave-produced goods such as sugar and tobacco on in…
West Africa and the transatlantic slave trade
Hunting for rents
Great wrong and unchristian thievery and robbery are committed all over the world by merchants. . . . Princes have become the companions of robbers. For they hang the thieves, who have stolen a gulden or half a gulden, but they associate with those, who rob all the world and steal with greater assurance than all others, so that the proverb remains true: big thieves hang little thieves; and as the Roman senator Cato said: mean thieves lie in priso…
The costs of survival
Market Structure and Profits of the British African Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century
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Learning from the past; a Freirean analysis of FA coach education since 1967
Formal coach education has been described as an activity which promotes conformity from course attendees. To date, however, few studies have looked at how coach education has been socially constructed over time. The present study addresses this gap and provides a Freirean account of English Football Association (FA) coach education since 1967. Specifically, this study focuses on coach education in the participation domain (grassroots football) wh…
Football in the community schemes
This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a Premier League football club’s Football in the Community (FitC) schemes intervention in promoting positive healthful behaviour change in children. Specifically, exploring the effectiveness of this intervention from the perspectives of the participants involved (i.e. the researcher, teachers, children and coaches). A range of data collection techniques were utilized including the principles of ethn…
Tudor Chamber Administration (1485-1547)
Book Notices Get access The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 2, Issue 3, Summer 1953, Pages 431–436, https://doi.org/10.2307/837499 Published: 01 July 1953
Profitability in the Bristol-Liverpool Slave Trade
The main purpose of this short paper is to estimate the profitability of the English outport slave trade and to consider the English experience against the background of recent work on the profits achieved by Continental, notably French, Dutch and Danish, slave traders. An assessment of profits in the English trade is attempted by a brief analysis of the trading accounts of William Davenport, a prominent Liverpool slave trader during the third qu…
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore
English America and the Restoration Monarchy of Charles II
The American Frontier Revisited
Hebron
Annexation and Colonization
Market Structure and Profits of the British African Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century
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Market Structure and the Profits of the British African Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century
In his rejoinder in the September 1983 issue of this JOURNAL to our comment on his article that appeared in December 1981, J. E. Inikori claims that we fail to address effectively any of the six major points raised by his article. We confess that we did not respond to his arguments about temporal fluctuations and interfirm variations in profit margins, largely because we regarded such arguments as commonplace and the subject of little debate amon…
Investigation and Responsibility
The costs of survival
The Slave Trade, Sugar, and British Economic Growth, 1748-1776
David Richardson, The Slave Trade, Sugar, and British Economic Growth, 1748-1776, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 17, No. 4, Caribbean Slavery and British Capitalism (Spring, 1987), pp. 739-769
Accounting for profits in the British trade in slaves
Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700–1810
Using new evidence on the British, French and North American slave-carrying trades, this article seeks to revise Lovejoy's recently published estimates of the levels of slave exports from West and West-Central Africa in the eighteenth century. The figures suggest that Lovejoy's estimate of the total volume of slave exports from the west coast of Africa to America between 1700 and 1810 was probably reasonably accurate, being only 8 per cent lower …
The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century
The British slave trade to Colonial South Carolina
(1991). The British slave trade to Colonial South Carolina. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 125-172
Prices of Slaves in West and West‐central Africa
Currently available price series for slaves during the eighteenth century need to be treated with much caution, and it seems unlikely that large quantities of new evidence will be unearthed. Further progress toward the creation of more reliable price series will thus require new methods of estimation. In this paper, a new price series for slaves at the African coast is calculated using data relating to the number of slaves shipped from the coast …
The Portuguese Slave Trade from Angola
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The Fuller Letters
Astoria and Empire
The Slaves' Economy
Cape verde, Madeira and Britain's trade to Africa, 1698–1740
(1994). Cape verde, Madeira and Britain's trade to Africa, 1698–1740. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-15
Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century
The initial ‘crisis of adaptation’
Since 1956, when Dike argued that abolition involved ‘a drastic change’ for Africa, with Britain's withdrawal from slaving in 1807 precipitating ‘an economic crisis among African traders’, the impact of British abolition on Africa has been the subject of controversy. What impact, if any, did British abolition have on the economies of West Africa? Most historians now agree that the transition from the export trade in slaves to the export of primar…
Productivity in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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