Trader, the Owner, the Slave
Trader, the Owner, the Slave In thisnew and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallellives of three individuals caught up in the…
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Trader, the Owner, the Slave
In thisnew and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallellives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavementa trader, an owner, and a slaveare examined. Thomas Thistlewood (172186) lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner s life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. John Newton (17251807), best known as the author of "Amazing Grace," was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition.
All three men were contemporaries; they even came close Olaudah Equiano (174597) was practically unknown 30years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave speaks out for lives of millions who went unrecorded.