The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade

British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion
Herausgeber: Burroughs, Robert; Huzzey, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century campaign.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085116
• ISBN-10: 071908511X
• Artikelnr.: 42362122

Autorenporträt

Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Beckett University Richard Huzzey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore
Robert Burroughs 2 The politics of slave
trade suppression
Richard Huzzey 3 'Tis enough that we give them liberty'? Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave
trade suppression
Emma Christopher 4 A 'most miserable business': naval officers' experiences of slave
trade suppression
Mary Wills 5 British and African health in the anti
slave
trade squadron
John Rankin 6 Slave
trade suppression and the culture of anti
slavery in nineteenth
century Britain
Robert Burroughs 7 Slave
trade suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth
century Britain
David Lambert 8 History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave
trade suppression
Richard Huzzey and John McAleer Index