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Cashews from Africa’s Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era’s explosion...

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Autore principale:	Murphy, Kathleen S.
Natura:	Online
Lingua:	inglese
Pubblicazione:	The University of North Carolina Press 2026
Soggetti:	Eighteenth-century British slave trade Natural history History of science and medicine Early modern Atlantic World Atlantic slavery Legacies of slavery and the slave trade Natural historical collecting Atlantic History Slavery studies Collectors and collecting Museum studies Transatlantic slave trade Natural history museums British colonialism and science History of natural history and biological sciences History of collecting Maritime history Imperialism and colonialism Science and commerce Science and empire Natural knowledge production Enslaved collectors Scientific profits of the slave trade History of museums Colonial British America and the Caribbean West and West Central Africa Slave ship surgeons Slave ships thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTS Slavery and abolition of slavery thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere
Accesso online:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109998
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