LEADER 04473nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910971180003321 005 20250327124232.0 010 $a9786613348852 010 $a9780190259754 010 $a0190259752 010 $a9781283348850 010 $a1283348853 010 $a9780199753307 010 $a019975330X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065739 035 $a(EBL)829474 035 $a(OCoLC)768330916 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000552080 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11337083 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552080 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10564554 035 $a(PQKB)10841431 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001100865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC829474 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL829474 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514850 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL334885 035 $a(PPN)157881385 035 $a(OCoLC)697264306 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB163787 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065739 100 $a20110418d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe slave trade and the origins of international human rights law /$fJenny S. Martinez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780199368990 311 08$a0199368996 311 08$a9780195391626 311 08$a0195391624 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter One: International Law, Slavery and the Idea of International Human Rights -- Chapter Two: British Abolitionism and Diplomacy, 1807-1817 -- Chapter Three: The United States and the Slave Trade: 1776-1824 -- Chapter Four: The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Chapter Five:Am I Not a Man and a Brother? -- Chapter Six: Hostis Humanis Generis: Enemies of Mankind -- Chapter Seven: The Final Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Chapter Eight: A Bridge to the Future: Links Between the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Modern International Human Rights Movement -- Chapter Nine: International Human Rights Law and International Courts: Rethinking their Origins and Future. 330 $a"There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights law, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Originating in England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. Here then, buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, are the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international courts targeting states and non-state transnational actors while working on behalf the world's most persecuted peoples--captured West Africans bound for the slave plantations of the Americas. Fueled by a powerful thesis and novel evidence, Martinez's work will reshape the fields of human rights history and international human rights law"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation 606 $aHuman rights$xInternational cooperation 615 0$aSlavery$xLaw and legislation. 615 0$aHuman rights$xInternational cooperation. 676 $a341.4/8 686 $aHIS038000$aHIS037060$2bisacsh 700 $aMartinez$b Jenny S$0480475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971180003321 996 $aSlave trade and the origins of international human rights law$9257344 997 $aUNINA