Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / edited by Derek R. Peterson. - 1 online resource (249 pages). - African studies from Cambridge .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.

Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- 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.

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Slave trade--History.--Great Britain
Slave trade--Colonies--History.--Great Britain--America
Slave trade--History.--Africa
Antislavery movements--History.--Great Britain
Imperialism--Social aspects--Great Britain.


Great Britain--Colonies--History.


Electronic books.

HT1162 / .A26 2010

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