Africans, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23429075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Alessandra Bollettino (History, Framingham State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 501-518 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197622605.013.20 |
| OpenAlex | W4400773306 |
| ISBN | 9780197622605 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The Seven Years’ War offered opportunities for some African-descended people to engage in imperial warfare and earn recognition and perquisites, or to abscond from or engage in their own wars against their owners. But for most people of African descent, the war years exacerbated the privation, violence, and dislocation that already characterized their lives. Postwar territorial acquisitions, liberalizations of the slave trade, and military reforms that undermined the rights of Black soldiers led to an unprecedented expansion of the slave trade and plantation slavery in the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic, and the reconfiguration of racial regimes in the Caribbean in particular. While they lost ground in the Americas, in Senegambia free Africans succeeded in manipulating the British conquest to serve their economic and political interests. Moreover, the territorial and racial reconfigurations born of the global conflict laid the groundwork for an upsurge of abolitionism in its wake.
Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
Moral Capital
The Seven Years’ War in West Africa
The Plantation Machine
The mid‐eighteenth century gum Arabic trade and the British conquest of Saint‐Louis du Senegal, 1758
Of equal or of more service’
Final Passages
Till these Experiments be Made
Tacky's Revolt
The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759
"War as the "Forcing House of Change
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |