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A detailed and astonishing revelation of the forgotten history behind the seemingly familiar. Passionately written and meticulously researched." –David Olusoga, author of Black and British: A Short, Essential History  "This book tells the story of the Christian hymn 'Amazing Grace, ' from its creation by English former slave ship captain John Newton in 1772, through its popularization among performers and listeners in the United States, to its...

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No historian on either side of the Atlantic has captured this sweeping, epic story of inhumanity, mass migration, cultural transformation, and global empire quite like James Walvin. Walvin is to slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world what Dickens was to English literature in the nineteenth century. He writes like a perfectly tuned machine that cannot be stopped, the results are lyrical and deeply informed. With each new book, Walvin...

James Walvin plots the story of black slavery and traces the intellectual and historical arguments which have swirled around its history in recent years. This comparative analysis of slavery in the English-speaking Americas offers new perspectives and a wide-ranging thematic organization which covers the racial, social, economic, political, cultural, gender and colonial dimensions of this complex subject.

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A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Walvin presents a comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we kn...

A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Walvin presents a comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we kn...

Ehe er zu einem wesentlichen Bestandteil im Leben von Millionen Menschen wurde, war Zucker teurer Luxus und geschätztes Monopol der Könige und Fürsten. Zucker war Macht, und die übt er noch heute aus: Sein Angriff auf unsere Gesundheit kennt keine Standesunterschiede. Zucker hat viele Parallelen zu Tabak: Beiden Stoffen ermöglichte Sklavenarbeit den Aufstieg, beide haben sie breite Bevölkerungsschichten in eine subtilere Form der Unfreiheit ...

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Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resistance. In time, their defiance was to prove the crucial final factor in bringing down slavery itself.' James Walvin, in Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt

The modern successor to Sweetness and Power, James Walvin's Sugar is a rich and engaging work on a topic that continues to change our world. How did sugar grow from prize to pariah? Acclaimed historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by enslaved people who had been uprooted and shipped vast distances to undertake the grueling labor on plantations. The combination of sugar and slav...

In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance of the enslaved themselves--from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings--and its impact in overthrowing slavery.g slavery.

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings - and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks that whole Atlantic world, including the Spanish Empire and Brazil. In doing so, he casts new light on one of the major shifts in Western history in the p...

This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World. It is high time that this resistance, in addition to abolitionism and other factors, was given its due weight in seeking to understand the overthrow of slavery. Fundamentally, as Walvin shows so clea...