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Title A global history of anti-slavery politics in the nineteenth century / edited by William Mulligan and Maurice Bric
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (254 pages)
Contents "Liberté, indépendance": Haitian anti-slavery and independence and national independence / Julia Gaffield -- "A most promising field for future usefulness": The Church Missionary Society and the liberated Africans of Sierra Leone / Maeve Ryan -- Debating slavery and empire: the United States, Britain, and The World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 / Maurice Bric -- The political as personal: transatlantic abolitionism c. 1833-1867 / Simon Morgan -- Autocratic abolitionists: tsarist Russian anti-slavery campaigns / Megan Dean Farah -- Abolition and anti-slavery in the Ottoman Empire: a case to answer? / Ehud R. Toledano -- Anti-slavery in Spain and its colonies, 1808-1886 / Christopher Schmidt Nowara -- The anti-slave trade campaign in Europe, 1888-1890 / William Mulligan -- The invasion of the United States by an Englishman: E.D. Morel and the Anglo-American intervention in the Congo / Charles Laderman -- The slave trade, slavery, and abolitionism: the unfinished debate in France / Françoise Vergès -- Transformations in the law concerning slavery: legacies of the nineteenth century anti-slavery movement / Andrea Nicholson
Summary "Over the course of the nineteenth century, European and American attitudes to slavery underwent a transformation. Slavery, thriving and morally acceptable on the eve of the American and French revolutions, was considered 'uncivilized' and 'barbaric' by 1900. This transformation is one of the most significant moral revolutions in human history. This book shows how the anti-slavery movement became a central aspect of international relations in the nineteenth century. Abolitionism provided an issue that connected high politics, popular associations, and the agency of the most oppressed individuals, in changing social institutions, labour, economic and commercial relations, and international politics. The story of the exchange of these ideas across borders, the establishment of transnational networks, and the global legacy of anti-slavery for human rights and humanitarian politics today are the subjects of this collection of essays"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- History -- 19th century
Slavery & abolition of slavery -- c 1800 to c 1900.
General & world history -- c 1800 to c 1900.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 -- c 1800 to c 1900.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Antislavery movements
Slavery
Abolitionismus
Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery & abolition of slavery -- c 1500 onwards to present day -- 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
General & world history -- c 1500 onwards to present day -- 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mulligan, William, 1975- editor.
Bric, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), editor.
ISBN 9781137032607
113703260X
1349441163
9781349441167