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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464122403321

Titolo

Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / / edited by Derek R. Peterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

0-8214-4305-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

African studies from Cambridge

Disciplina

326/.809171241

Soggetti

Slave trade - Great Britain - History

Slave trade - Great Britain - Colonies - America - History

Slave trade - Africa - History

Antislavery movements - Great Britain - History

Imperialism - Social aspects - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Great Britain Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton -- Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. Brown -- Ending the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.

Sommario/riassunto

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in



which a variety of actors-slaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneurs-played a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from