Anthony J Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3957690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony J Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony J |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-1833: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule
Books
Anzac Remembered: Selected Writings of K.S. Inglis. Edited by John Lack. History Department, University of Melbourne, 1998. Pp. v + 269. $20.00 (plus postage) paper. Anzacs, the Media, and the Great War. By John F. Williams. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. Pp. x + 302. $35.00 paper. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. By Ken Inglis assisted by Jan Brazier. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press,…
Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables Preface to the Second Edition The Documents and Editorial Conventions List of Abbreviations I. James Irving's Career 1. Introduction 2. Early Career in the Liverpool Slave Trade 3. Irving's Voyages in the Transatlantic Slave Trade 4. Shipwreck and Enslavement 5. Freedom and Return to England 6. Conclusion II. James Irving's Correspondence, 1786-1791 III. Journal of James Irving's Shipwreck and Enslavement, M…
Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean
List of Maps - Preface - Introduction: Troptard and His Owners - Isles of France Pre-1810 - Slaves and Slave-Owners 1760-1810 - Abolitionist Intrusions 1810-1815 - Illicit Slaving and Colonel Keating 1811-1815 - Mauritius Slavers, Courts, Free Colour Questions 1811-1818 - Slaves Demanded and Supplied 1817-1820 - Madagascar Treaty and Military Eruptions 1817-1820 - Anatomy of Pre-Abolition Slave Colonies - Rebellions in the 1830s - Finale - Glossa…
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule
Preface - Abbreviations in the Notes - Map of Administrative Districts of Mauritius - Introduction: History and Historiography - The Abolitionists Discover the Mauritius Question - Corruption Concealed: The Farquhar Era 1810-1822 - Reform Pretended: Cole and Telfair - Slavery in 1826: A Demographic Survey - Upheaval and the Failure of Protection - The Trauma of Slavery - Resistance and Other Responses to Slavery - Slavery and Freedom in Port Loui…
Resistance and Other Responses to Slavery
The idea that the only form of resistance to slavery was bloody revolt did not long survive the publication in the late 1950s of Stanley Elkins’ Slavery . Indeed almost two decades before Elkins used the relative absence of revolt in the United States as evidence for ‘Sambo’, the infantilized slave victim, Herbert Aptheker had argued for many subtle forms of resistance, including work go-slows, feigned illness, poisoning of whites and sabotage as…
Slavery in 1826: A Demographic Survey
Although there were official general returns at ten yearly intervals, detailed demographic analysis of the slave population of Mauritius is impossible for any period before 1826. In 1807 — the date closest to the British takeover of the island for which there is a return — the overall population of 77768 was made up of 6489 whites, 5912 free coloureds and 65367 slaves. 1 In 1817 the total recorded population had risen to 97847. This was the resul…
Upheaval and the Failure of Protection
As we have seen in Chapter 4, in the period up to the publication of Charles Telfair’s book in 1829 humanitarian reform was having negligible impact on Mauritius, while the expansion of sugar production was at its most rapid following the equalization of the duties in 1825. From 1829 onwards reform involved a system of Slave Protection deeply resented by the slave owners of Mauritius and introduced just as the boom in sugar production was collaps…
Introduction: History and Historiography
It is easy to overlook the fact that Mauritius, a tiny island of some 720 square miles in the western Indian Ocean, was one of the largest slave colonies in the British Empire at the time of the Emancipation Act of 1833. 1 Visitors to the newly acquired island in the years after 1810 often recorded shock at vivid, squalid and brutal scenes on the wharves and in the streets of Port Louis. Even those familiar with the West Indies had seen nothing t…
Slavery and Freedom in Port Louis
Throughout the three decades after 1810 Port Louis never lost its power to fascinate and almost overwhelm newcomers with the sights, sounds and smells of frequently brutal squalor. The ‘filthy and miserable State of Nudity in which the Blacks are there allowed to go about’ 1 was remarked on by many and repellent to most. To Lady Cole, Governor’s wife arriving in 1823, the chaotic throng of multi-coloured humanity seemed like a dream from the Arab…
Reform Pretended: Cole and Telfair 1823–8
Assessments of the impact of British rule on the slave population of Mauritius have to take into account two very different influences, humanitarian reform and rapid economic growth. According to Charles Telfair, the two new influences were not inevitably at odds, for enlightened policies meant successful economics. But if he had created anything like the Utopia he would eventually describe this had been, as he would also make clear, his own choi…
Conclusion
The research for this book began with a questioning of the brutal image of Mauritian slavery presented by three prominent British abolitionists and of the claims they made about its impact on the movement for emancipation throughout the empire. It has involved exploration not only of image and impact but of the minds and motives of the abolitionists themselves. While the prime targets of antislavery attack, a corrupt British governor and a venal …
The Abolitionists Discover Mauritius
In 1826 members of the national British antislavery organization, the African Institution, turned on one of their eminent vice-presidents, the recently knighted MP for Newton in Lancashire, Robert Farquhar, accusing him of being promoter and protector of an illegal slave trade, which had sustained a slave system of unmatched cruelty, during his ten years as governor of Mauritius up to 1823. The source of the allegations was Edward Byam, former Co…
Slaves as Antislavery Property
The abolitionists who had seized on the Mauritius question did not entirely ignore the records of Slave Protection, which have been used extensively in the exploration of the slave experience conducted in earlier chapters. Zachary Macaulay’s Anti-Slavery Reporter, for example, supplemented its attack with citation of a number of individual cases coming before the Protectors. But these and other antislavery sources saw the barbarities of slavery s…
The Trauma of Slavery
The upheavals caused by the changing economy may have introduced new instability into the lives of many slaves, but for very large numbers these processes were, above all, a continuation of insecurity and oppression that had begun with the process of enslavement and continued throughout their lives. Physical and emotional suffering, malnutrition, injury and disease were not the inevitable lot of every slave but they were so widespread as to be pa…
Corruption Concealed: The Farquhar Era 1810–22
The related issues of the illegal slave trade and the brutality of slavery in Mauritius had been seized on in the 1820s as a useful way of both discrediting former Governor Farquhar and stimulating the antislavery cause. The verdict of history — to the small extent that the issue has been discussed — has been that the antislavery attack on Farquhar and his regime was unjustified but that the depiction of slave atrocities was broadly true. The nat…
Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict Between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33
This is a study of a unique slave colony and of antislavery conflicts prior to the Emancipation Act of 1833. In their hostility to a booming slave-based sugar economy, abolitionists produced dubious p
Frederick Douglass and Black Abolitionism
Frederick Douglass. WILLIAM S. McFEELY. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. xiii, 465 pp. Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. ERIC J. SUNDQUIST (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. vi, 295 pp. The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One: Speeches, Debates and Interviews, Volume 4: 1864–80. JOHN W. BLASSINGAME and JOHN R. McKIVIGAN (eds.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1991. xxxvii, 66…
Distorting the record of slavery and abolition: The British anti‐slavery movement and Mauritius, 1826–37
What Happened When: A Chronology of Australia from 1788
When was left-hand driving enforced in Australia? When did women get the vote? When did the Garden Palace burn down? When was Vegemite invented? The answers to these questions, and more, are in Happened When? This book should settle arguments, refresh memories, furnish some surprises and answer a lot of questions. The year-by-year arrangement of the text is designed to make it easy to use, and its 140 page index provides a valuable reference sour…
Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo-American Abolitionist
Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo-American Abolitionist
Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo-American Abolitionist
Journal Article Captain Charles Stuart: Ango-American Abolitionist. By Anthony J. Barker. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xv + 328 pp. $32.50.) Get access Christine Bolt Christine Bolt University of Kent, Canterbury, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Page 177, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908555 Published: 01 June 1987
The African Link: British Attitudes to the Negro in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1550-1807
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33
This is a study of a unique slave colony and of antislavery conflicts prior to the Emancipation Act of 1833. In their hostility to a booming slave-based sugar economy, abolitionists produced dubious p
Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean
List of Maps - Preface - Introduction: Troptard and His Owners - Isles of France Pre-1810 - Slaves and Slave-Owners 1760-1810 - Abolitionist Intrusions 1810-1815 - Illicit Slaving and Colonel Keating 1811-1815 - Mauritius Slavers, Courts, Free Colour Questions 1811-1818 - Slaves Demanded and Supplied 1817-1820 - Madagascar Treaty and Military Eruptions 1817-1820 - Anatomy of Pre-Abolition Slave Colonies - Rebellions in the 1830s - Finale - Glossa…
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule
Preface - Abbreviations in the Notes - Map of Administrative Districts of Mauritius - Introduction: History and Historiography - The Abolitionists Discover the Mauritius Question - Corruption Concealed: The Farquhar Era 1810-1822 - Reform Pretended: Cole and Telfair - Slavery in 1826: A Demographic Survey - Upheaval and the Failure of Protection - The Trauma of Slavery - Resistance and Other Responses to Slavery - Slavery and Freedom in Port Loui…
Distorting the record of slavery and abolition: The British anti‐slavery movement and Mauritius, 1826–37
The African Link: British Attitudes to the Negro in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1550-1807
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Black Africa
Captain Charles Stuart and the British and American Abolition Movements: 1830–34
Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo-American Abolitionist
Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo-American Abolitionist
Journal Article Captain Charles Stuart: Ango-American Abolitionist. By Anthony J. Barker. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xv + 328 pp. $32.50.) Get access Christine Bolt Christine Bolt University of Kent, Canterbury, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Page 177, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908555 Published: 01 June 1987
Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo-American Abolitionist
What Happened When: A Chronology of Australia from 1788
When was left-hand driving enforced in Australia? When did women get the vote? When did the Garden Palace burn down? When was Vegemite invented? The answers to these questions, and more, are in Happened When? This book should settle arguments, refresh memories, furnish some surprises and answer a lot of questions. The year-by-year arrangement of the text is designed to make it easy to use, and its 140 page index provides a valuable reference sour…
Frederick Douglass and Black Abolitionism
Frederick Douglass. WILLIAM S. McFEELY. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. xiii, 465 pp. Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. ERIC J. SUNDQUIST (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. vi, 295 pp. The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One: Speeches, Debates and Interviews, Volume 4: 1864–80. JOHN W. BLASSINGAME and JOHN R. McKIVIGAN (eds.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1991. xxxvii, 66…
Distorting the record of slavery and abolition: The British anti‐slavery movement and Mauritius, 1826–37
Resistance and Other Responses to Slavery
The idea that the only form of resistance to slavery was bloody revolt did not long survive the publication in the late 1950s of Stanley Elkins’ Slavery . Indeed almost two decades before Elkins used the relative absence of revolt in the United States as evidence for ‘Sambo’, the infantilized slave victim, Herbert Aptheker had argued for many subtle forms of resistance, including work go-slows, feigned illness, poisoning of whites and sabotage as…
Slavery in 1826: A Demographic Survey
Although there were official general returns at ten yearly intervals, detailed demographic analysis of the slave population of Mauritius is impossible for any period before 1826. In 1807 — the date closest to the British takeover of the island for which there is a return — the overall population of 77768 was made up of 6489 whites, 5912 free coloureds and 65367 slaves. 1 In 1817 the total recorded population had risen to 97847. This was the resul…
Upheaval and the Failure of Protection
As we have seen in Chapter 4, in the period up to the publication of Charles Telfair’s book in 1829 humanitarian reform was having negligible impact on Mauritius, while the expansion of sugar production was at its most rapid following the equalization of the duties in 1825. From 1829 onwards reform involved a system of Slave Protection deeply resented by the slave owners of Mauritius and introduced just as the boom in sugar production was collaps…
Introduction: History and Historiography
It is easy to overlook the fact that Mauritius, a tiny island of some 720 square miles in the western Indian Ocean, was one of the largest slave colonies in the British Empire at the time of the Emancipation Act of 1833. 1 Visitors to the newly acquired island in the years after 1810 often recorded shock at vivid, squalid and brutal scenes on the wharves and in the streets of Port Louis. Even those familiar with the West Indies had seen nothing t…
Slavery and Freedom in Port Louis
Throughout the three decades after 1810 Port Louis never lost its power to fascinate and almost overwhelm newcomers with the sights, sounds and smells of frequently brutal squalor. The ‘filthy and miserable State of Nudity in which the Blacks are there allowed to go about’ 1 was remarked on by many and repellent to most. To Lady Cole, Governor’s wife arriving in 1823, the chaotic throng of multi-coloured humanity seemed like a dream from the Arab…
Reform Pretended: Cole and Telfair 1823–8
Assessments of the impact of British rule on the slave population of Mauritius have to take into account two very different influences, humanitarian reform and rapid economic growth. According to Charles Telfair, the two new influences were not inevitably at odds, for enlightened policies meant successful economics. But if he had created anything like the Utopia he would eventually describe this had been, as he would also make clear, his own choi…
Conclusion
The research for this book began with a questioning of the brutal image of Mauritian slavery presented by three prominent British abolitionists and of the claims they made about its impact on the movement for emancipation throughout the empire. It has involved exploration not only of image and impact but of the minds and motives of the abolitionists themselves. While the prime targets of antislavery attack, a corrupt British governor and a venal …
The Abolitionists Discover Mauritius
In 1826 members of the national British antislavery organization, the African Institution, turned on one of their eminent vice-presidents, the recently knighted MP for Newton in Lancashire, Robert Farquhar, accusing him of being promoter and protector of an illegal slave trade, which had sustained a slave system of unmatched cruelty, during his ten years as governor of Mauritius up to 1823. The source of the allegations was Edward Byam, former Co…
Slaves as Antislavery Property
The abolitionists who had seized on the Mauritius question did not entirely ignore the records of Slave Protection, which have been used extensively in the exploration of the slave experience conducted in earlier chapters. Zachary Macaulay’s Anti-Slavery Reporter, for example, supplemented its attack with citation of a number of individual cases coming before the Protectors. But these and other antislavery sources saw the barbarities of slavery s…
The Trauma of Slavery
The upheavals caused by the changing economy may have introduced new instability into the lives of many slaves, but for very large numbers these processes were, above all, a continuation of insecurity and oppression that had begun with the process of enslavement and continued throughout their lives. Physical and emotional suffering, malnutrition, injury and disease were not the inevitable lot of every slave but they were so widespread as to be pa…
Corruption Concealed: The Farquhar Era 1810–22
The related issues of the illegal slave trade and the brutality of slavery in Mauritius had been seized on in the 1820s as a useful way of both discrediting former Governor Farquhar and stimulating the antislavery cause. The verdict of history — to the small extent that the issue has been discussed — has been that the antislavery attack on Farquhar and his regime was unjustified but that the depiction of slave atrocities was broadly true. The nat…
Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict Between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33
This is a study of a unique slave colony and of antislavery conflicts prior to the Emancipation Act of 1833. In their hostility to a booming slave-based sugar economy, abolitionists produced dubious p
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule
Preface - Abbreviations in the Notes - Map of Administrative Districts of Mauritius - Introduction: History and Historiography - The Abolitionists Discover the Mauritius Question - Corruption Concealed: The Farquhar Era 1810-1822 - Reform Pretended: Cole and Telfair - Slavery in 1826: A Demographic Survey - Upheaval and the Failure of Protection - The Trauma of Slavery - Resistance and Other Responses to Slavery - Slavery and Freedom in Port Loui…
Books
Anzac Remembered: Selected Writings of K.S. Inglis. Edited by John Lack. History Department, University of Melbourne, 1998. Pp. v + 269. $20.00 (plus postage) paper. Anzacs, the Media, and the Great War. By John F. Williams. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. Pp. x + 302. $35.00 paper. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. By Ken Inglis assisted by Jan Brazier. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press,…
Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables Preface to the Second Edition The Documents and Editorial Conventions List of Abbreviations I. James Irving's Career 1. Introduction 2. Early Career in the Liverpool Slave Trade 3. Irving's Voyages in the Transatlantic Slave Trade 4. Shipwreck and Enslavement 5. Freedom and Return to England 6. Conclusion II. James Irving's Correspondence, 1786-1791 III. Journal of James Irving's Shipwreck and Enslavement, M…
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