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  • The British Gunpowder Industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • Nicholas Radburn
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 97 / Issue 2 / Summer 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 September 2023, pp. 363-384
    Print publication:
    Summer 2023
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  • How did Atlantic slavery stimulate British industry? This article answers that question through a study of five firms that supplied gunpowder to the slave trade. It first demonstrates that the Atlantic slavery trade certainly expanded Britain's explosives industry during the eighteenth century. British merchant capitalists established five plants in the proximity of Bristol and Liverpool to meet African demand, provincializing the gunpowder industry for the first time. The slave trade also inflated the gunpowder industry's volume, with twelve percent of all powder going to Africa before abolition. This article next reveals that supplying the slave trade was likely a lucrative pursuit for British manufacturers, with investors in the five mills earning profits that exceeded those of slaving. The boost given to the explosives industry faded considerably as abolition neared, however, and so this article concludes that Atlantic slavery's stimulus was likely of limited importance for driving the later Industrial Revolution.

  • 1 - The Emotional Foundations of Racialized Slavery

  • Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    She Is Weeping
    Published online:
    03 November 2021
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    18 November 2021, pp 1-48
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    This chapter explores the representation of emotions in justifications of slavery during antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the rise of Atlantic slavery, paying close attention to the shift from the notion of “slavery to passions” in ancient Greco-Roman philosophy to the principle of “slavery to sin” in early Christian thought. This chapter concludes with an analysis of the role of emotional discourse in the globalization of racialized slavery.

  • 3 - Atlantic Slavery and Its Passionate Transgressions

  • Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    She Is Weeping
    Published online:
    03 November 2021
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    18 November 2021, pp 112-167

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the projection of passions and feelings in master–enslaved relations and the role of this projection in the development of body politics and power relations in the empires of the Atlantic world. The chapter recognizes links between ideas about emotions and the genocidal violence of Atlantic slavery. Particular attention is paid to the representation of enslaved resistance as a “passionate transgression,” focusing on the Haitian Revolution as a case study.