Distant Ripples of the British Abolitionist Wave Africa, Asia and the Americas - Softcover

Cottias, Myriam; Rossignol, Maria-Jeanne

 
9781569025512: Distant Ripples of the British Abolitionist Wave Africa, Asia and the Americas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1569025517 ISBN 13: 9781569025512
Publisher: Africa World Press, 2018

Synopsis

This collection of essays probes British efforts to abolish the slave trade internationally in the 19th century and how they impacted local discourses and practices relating to slavery and abolition in other continents and countries (Africa, the Americas, Asia). Coming in the wake of the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1807, it insists on the ambiguous imperial ambitions of Britain, as well as on local initiatives to abolish slavery which did not simply draw their inspiration from Britain and the humanitarian rhetoric of the abolitionists.

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Publisher
Africa World Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1569025517
ISBN 13 
9781569025512
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
442