This book presents an analysis of James MacQueen's 1841 "A New Map of Africa," saying that Atlantic slavery was not only a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle, but it was also entangled with production, circulation, and reception of geo…
In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778-1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery-as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle-was entangled with the productio…
A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States. Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the Unit…
For abstracts see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 11, 1999-2000 (2001); p. 103.
"This book directs its main focus to the Guinea Company and its members, aiming to understand the genealogy of several major changes taking place in the English Atlantic and in the Anglo-Africa trade in the 17th century and beyond. Little focus has been directed at the companies…
