Reeve, Jane Aptekar, Plotting to stop the British slave trade , 2019
- Title(s):
- Plotting to stop the British slave trade : James Bruce and his secret mission to Africa / Jane Aptekar Reeve.
- Published/Created:
- Bloomington, IN : AuthorHouse, 2019.
©2019 - Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 666 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryHT1163 .R44 2019 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15669306
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-645) and index.
Book signed by author.
"This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West's 'enlightenment' period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. He was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant's artwork), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a 'subversive' mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends' drive to destroy the principal source of their own country's wealth. This was achieved in 1807"--Back cover. - Subject Terms:
- Antislavery movements -- Great Britain.Bruce, James, 1763-1837.Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 18th century.Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History.Slavery -- Great Britain.Social movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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- Part 1: Introducing James Bruce
- A brief biography of Bruce: including an account of his arrival in Ethiopia through the Red Sea Port of Massawa and of his departure through Hor-Cacamoot
- An annotated gallery of portraits, field sketches, and book illustrations
- The Bruce discoveries
- Part 2: Gensis of the Bruce Project
- Values, faiths, and commitments: how Bruce found his calling
- the Bruce-Balugani partnership
- Part 3: Consul Bruce and the experiment at Algiers
- Routes to reciprocation by treaty
- the Meditteranean cradle of slaving
- British passports, rotting cargos
- Part 4: Coming home
- The bread of paradise: injera with worms
- Lies and facts, friendes and allies
- Part 5: Spreading out
- Meeting John Antes at Cairo and Olaudah Equiano at Fetter Lane
- Bruce's big bully role in Britain; and how Latrobe watched Sophie's owner whip her at New Orleans
- How home's Douglas at Edinburgh and London let to Fennell's production at Philadelphia of Mrs. Rawson's slaves in Algiers
- Part 6: Bruce's Book
- Appetizers from Bruce's Travels.