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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

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Other Authors: Peterson, Derek R., 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2010]
Series:Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
Subjects:
Slave trade > Great Britain > History.
Slave trade > Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
Slave trade > Africa > History.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.