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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807185103321

Autore

Grant Kevin <1965-, >

Titolo

A civilised savagery : Britain and the new slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 / / Kevin Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-40871-8

0-203-95550-1

1-135-40864-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/62/096709034

Soggetti

Slavery - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 19th century

Slavery - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 20th century

Great Britain Colonies Africa History 19th century

Great Britain Colonies Africa History 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; A Civilised Savagery; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Humanity and Slavery in All Their Forms; Chapter 2 Bodies and Souls: Evangelicalism and Human Rights in the Congo Reform Campaign, 1884-1913; Chapter 3 ""Chinese Slavery"" in South Africa and Great Britain, 1902-1910; Chapter 4 Calculating Virtue: Cadbury Brothers and Slavery in Portuguese West Africa, 1901-1913; Chapter 5 British Anti-slavery and the Imperial Origins of International Government and Labor Law, 1914-1926; Epilogue; Appendix to Chapter 4; Notes

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities. A Civilized Savagery illuminates the multifaceted nature of British humanitarianism by



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