Title Freedom's debtors : British antislavery in Sierra Leone in the age of revolution / Padraic X. Scanlan

Published [Place of publication not identified] : Yale University Press : Yale University Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) : illustrations, map Series The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Antislavery on a Slave Coast; 2. Let That Heart Be English; 3. The Vice- Admiralty Court; 4. The Absolute Disposal of the Crown; 5. The Liberated African Department; Epilogue: MacCarthy's Skull; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y Summary A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Antislavery movements -- Sierra Leone -- History Slavery -- Sierra Leone -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Antislavery movements Slavery Sierra Leone Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300231526 0300231520

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