LEADER 03608nam 2200697 450 001 9910464122403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8214-4305-4 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046581 035 $a(EBL)1775229 035 $a(OCoLC)889676553 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000581003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11333124 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000581003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10531979 035 $a(PQKB)10245141 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1775229 035 $a(OCoLC)794698907 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2859 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1775229 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10907656 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046581 100 $a20090813h20102010 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAbolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /$fedited by Derek R. Peterson 210 1$aAthens, Ohio :$cOhio University Press,$d[2010] 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 0 $aAfrican studies from Cambridge 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1901-3 311 $a0-8214-1902-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $a The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actors-slaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneurs-played a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from 410 0$aCambridge Centre of African Studies Series 606 $aSlave trade$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSlave trade$zGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aSlave trade$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aAntislavery movements$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aImperialism$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory. 615 0$aSlave trade$xColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory. 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism$xSocial aspects 676 $a326/.809171241 702 $aPeterson$b Derek R.$f1971- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464122403321 996 $aAbolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic$92292193 997 $aUNINA