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

Title
  1. Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / edited by Derek R. Peterson.
Published by
  1. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2010.

Details

Additional authors
  1. Peterson, Derek R., 1971-
Description
  1. ix, 235 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge Centre of African Studies series
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
  2. Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  1. Abolitionismus
  2. Afrika
  3. Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History
  4. Great Britain > History
  5. Großbritannien
  6. Imperialism > Social aspects > Great Britain
  7. Kolonialismus
  8. Sklavenhandel
  9. Slave trade > Africa > History
  10. Slave trade > America > History
  11. Slave trade > Great Britain > History
  12. Slave trade > History. > America
Contents
  1. Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- 1807 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.
Processing action (note)
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