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UNINA9910788374503321 |
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Titolo |
Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / / edited by Derek R. Peterson |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Collana |
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African studies from Cambridge |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Great Britain Colonies History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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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 |
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