The Anti-Slavery Project : From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking /

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It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were...

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Autor principal: Quirk, Joel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Colección:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Temas:
Abolitionists > Great Britain > History.
Antislavery movements > History.
Human trafficking.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Peonage.
Slavery > History > 19th century.
Slavery > History > 20th century.
Slavery > History > 21st century.
Slavery.
Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
Law.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Anti-Slavery Project
  • Part I. The British Empire and the Legal Abolition of Slavery
  • Chapter 1. A Short History of British Anti-Slavery
  • Chapter 2. British Anti-Slavery and European International Society
  • Chapter 3. British Anti-Slavery and European Colonialism
  • Part II. Linking the Historical and Contemporary
  • Chapter 4. The Limits of Legal Abolition
  • Chapter 5. Defining Slavery in All Its Forms
  • Part III. Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Chapter 6. "Classical" Slavery and Descent-Based Discrimination
  • Chapter 7. Slaves to Debt
  • Chapter 8. Trafficked into Slavery
  • Conclusion: Contemporary Slavery in the Shadow of History
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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