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Author Major, Andrea.

Title Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 / Andrea Major
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012

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Description xx, 361 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
regular print
Series Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 6
Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 6
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Other Slaveries -- Introduction -- 1.̀To Call a Slave a Slave': Recovering Indian Slavery -- pt. II European Slaveries -- Introduction: Slavery and Colonial Expansion in India -- 2.̀A Shameful and Ruinous Trade': European Slave-trafficking and the East India Company -- 3.Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays: European Slave-holding and Early Colonial Society -- pt. III Indian Slaveries -- Introduction: Locating Indian Slaveries -- 4.̀This Household Servitude': Domestic Slavery and Immoral Commerce -- 5.̀Open and Professed Stealers of Children': Slave-trafficking and the Boundaries of the Colonial State -- 6.̀Slaves of the Soil': Caste and Agricultural Slavery in South India -- pt. IV Imagined Slaveries -- Introduction: Evangelical Connections -- 7.̀Satan's Wretched Slaves': Indian Society and the Evangelical Imagination -- 8.̀The Produce of the East by Free Men': Indian Sugar and Indian Slavery in British Abolitionist Debates, 1793-1833
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-351) and index
Subject Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery and the church -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery and the church -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- India -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery -- India -- History -- 19th century.
SUBJECT India -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951 -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012474
India -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
India -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951
India -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592 -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012474
India -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
India -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592
ISBN 1846317584
9781846317583