Africa and the west: A documentary history: volume 1: from the slave trade to conquest, 1441-1905

INDICE: VOLUME ONE; Part 1: Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade 1441-1899; Chapter One: European Discovery and the Beginnings of the Slave Trade (1441-1654); 1.; The beginnings of a regular European trade in slaves from Africa (1441); Gomes Eannes De Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea, c.1453; 2.; The Pope grants to the Portuguese a monopoly of trade with Africa (1455); Papal Bull Romanus Pontifex (Nicholas V), January 8, 1455; 3.; The First Convert to Christianity (1488); Ruy de Pina, Chronica del Rey Joao II,c.1500; 4.; The Wealth of Africa (1508); Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Esmeraldo deSitu Orbis, c.1505-08.; 5.; The King of Spain regulates the importation of African slaves into the Americas (1518); Licence granted August 18, 1518, by King Charles of Spain to Lorenzo de Gomenot to ship slaves to the Americas; 6.; Trying to Regulate the Trade in Slaves (1526); King Afonso of the Kongo, letters to the king of Portugal, July 6 and October 18, 1526; 7.; British attempts to break the Portuguese and Spanish monopolies of slave trading (1564-68); Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, 1598-1600; 8.; A Jesuit justifies the trade in African slaves to a skeptical colleague (1610),; Brother Luis Brandaon, letter to Father Sandoval, March 12, 1610; 9.; The importation of slaves into the Cape of Good Hope (1654); Instructions for the officers of the 'Roode Vos' on the voyage to Mauritius and Madagascar, May 8, 1654; Chapter Two: The Business of the Slave Trade (1672- 1729); 10.; An attempt to create an English monopoly of trade in West Africa (1672); Charter of the Royal African Company, 1672; 11.; Sources of slaves for the Royal African Company (1678); Thomas Thurloe, letter to the Royal African Company, Gamboa, March 15, 1678; 12.; The log of the Arthur, a ship carrying slaves for the Royal African Company from West Africa to Barbados (1677-78), journal of the Arthur, December 5, 1677 to May 25, 1678.; 13.; The Council of the Indies answers questions from the King of Spain concerning the introduction of slaves into Spanish America (1685), question of the king of Spain to the Council of the Indies, July 5, 1685, and the reply of the Council.;14.; The voyage of the Hannibal, carrying slaves from West Africa to Barbados(1693-94), Thomas Phillips, 'A Journal of a Voyage made in the Hannibal of London', 1693-94.; 15.; Willem Bosman describes the Dutch trade for slaves on the West African Coast (1704), Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, 1704.; 16.; In support of slavery and against monopoly (1729), Joshua Gee, The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered, 1729.;Chapter Three: The Slave Experience (1785-98); 17.; Venture Smith describes his capture into slavery (1798), Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, 1798.; 18.; Olaudah Equiano becomes a slave (1789), Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative

• ISBN: 978-0-19-537348-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 315
• Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés