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



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Titolo: Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / / edited by Derek R. Peterson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina: 326/.809171241
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): PetersonDerek R. <1971->
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
Titolo autorizzato: Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8214-4305-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464122403321
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Serie: Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series