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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic

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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, 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

Title Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / edited by Derek R. Peterson.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
Creation Date [2010]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.
English
Content 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.
Series African studies from Cambridge
Extent 1 online resource (249 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2010
National Library system number 997010711403405171
MARC RECORDS
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