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James Walvin


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James Walvin taught for many years at the University of York where he is now Professor of History Emeritus. He also held visiting positions in the Caribbean, the U.S.A. and Australia. He won the prestigious Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for his book Black and White, and has published widely on the history of slavery and the slave trade. His book The People's Game was a pioneering study of the history of football and remains in print thirty years after its first publication. ...more

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Short History of Slavery
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Black Ivory: Slavery in the...
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A World Transformed: Slaver...
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The People's Game: The Hist...
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The Slave Trade
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“. . . (S)lavery could not function without the lubricant of violence. . . The whip accompanied the lives of the enslaved from the moment they entered an Atlantic slave ship to their dying days in slavery.”
― James Walvin, A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
tags: african-american-history, brazil, jamaica, slavery, u-s-history
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