Sample Lecture: The Atlantic Slave Trade from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

Part of the first year course 'Atlantic Histories'

Dr Glen O'Hara

Senior Lecturer in History, Oxford Brookes University

1. The voyage of the Sandown

2. Why tell this story?

3. The themes of this lecture

4. The roots and mechanics of the slave trade

5. The size of the slave trade

6. Slavery and the African profit motive

7. What did slaves do in the Americas?

8. Was slavery in decline when the British abolished it?

9. Consequences of the slave trade: 'industrial revolution'?

10. Conclusions

11. Further reading

12. Web links