A global history of anti-slavery politics in the nineteenth century /

"Over the course of the nineteenth century, European and American attitudes to slavery underwent a transformation. Slavery, thriving and morally acceptable on the eve of the American and French revolutions, was considered 'uncivilized' and 'barbaric' by 1900. This transforma...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Mulligan, William, 1975- (Editor), Bric, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Antislavery movements > History > 19th century.
Slavery > History > 19th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Slavery & abolition of slavery > c 1800 to c 1900.
General & world history > c 1800 to c 1900.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 > c 1800 to c 1900.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Antislavery movements
Slavery
Abolitionismus
Slavery > Political aspects > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Slavery & abolition of slavery > c 1500 onwards to present day > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
General & world history > c 1500 onwards to present day > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Liberté, indépendance": Haitian anti-slavery and independence and national independence / Julia Gaffield
  • "A most promising field for future usefulness": The Church Missionary Society and the liberated Africans of Sierra Leone / Maeve Ryan
  • Debating slavery and empire: the United States, Britain, and The World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 / Maurice Bric
  • The political as personal: transatlantic abolitionism c. 1833-1867 / Simon Morgan
  • Autocratic abolitionists: tsarist Russian anti-slavery campaigns / Megan Dean Farah
  • Abolition and anti-slavery in the Ottoman Empire: a case to answer? / Ehud R. Toledano
  • Anti-slavery in Spain and its colonies, 1808-1886 / Christopher Schmidt Nowara
  • The anti-slave trade campaign in Europe, 1888-1890 / William Mulligan
  • The invasion of the United States by an Englishman: E.D. Morel and the Anglo-American intervention in the Congo / Charles Laderman
  • The slave trade, slavery, and abolitionism: the unfinished debate in France / Françoise Vergès
  • Transformations in the law concerning slavery: legacies of the nineteenth century anti-slavery movement / Andrea Nicholson.

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