REPRESENTING SLAVERY: ART, ARTEFACTS AND ARCHIVES IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
by Douglas Hamilton; Robert J. Blyth
Published by Lund Humphries. 1st. 2007
Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. This book draws on the extensive collections of the National Maritime Mueseum, Greenwich, and is published to mark the 200th anniversary of Parliament's abolition of the British slave trade in 1807. Ten specially commissioned essays by leading scholars set the collections in their historical context, demonstrating the scale and brutality of slavery, the nature and extent of African resistance, and the widespread effort to achieve abolition and emancipation. Edited by Hamilton & Blyth. Grey cloth boards, white title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations.
Light rubbing to base of spine. Name & date in ink to front endpaper else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapperi s lightly scuffed to rear panel.
ISBN: 9780853319665
Stock no. 1828117
