New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sanjurjo, Jesús; Barcia, Manuel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship on unfree labour in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds during the past two decades. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000869736
• Artikelnr.: 67545270

Autorenporträt

Jesús Sanjurjo is an Early Career Fellow of the Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Trusts at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of In the Blood of Our Brothers. Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800-1870 (2021). Manuel Barcia is Chair of Global History at the University of Leeds. He is a scholar in the field of Atlantic and Slavery Studies. He has published extensively on the subjects of slave resistance, slave rebellion and the transfers of West African warfare knowledge to the Americas, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Brazil and Cuba.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Cape Lopez Africans at Maranhão: Geo-political
literacy, British consuls, and the demise of the transatlantic slave trade
to Brazil 2. On the frontlines of slave trade abolition: British consuls
combat state capture in Cuba and Mozambique 3. From abolition of the slave
trade to protection of immigrants: Danish colonialism, German missionaries,
and the development of ideas of humanitarian governance from the early
eighteenth to the nineteenth century 4. Guerrilla inscription:
Transatlantic abolition and the 1851 census 5. In the shadows between slave
and free: A case for detangling the word "slave" from the word "chattel" 6.
Shared Atlantic legal culture: the case of a freedom suit in Benguela