Freedom burning : anti-slavery and empire in Victorian Britain /

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After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority to other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Huzzey, Richard, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
1800-1901
Abolitionists > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Imperialism > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Politics and culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Public opinion > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Great Britain > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Abolitionnistes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Impérialisme > Opinion publique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Politique et culture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Opinion publique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Opinion publique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Imperialism > Public opinion
Politics and government
Politics and culture
Public opinion
Slave trade > Public opinion
Abolitionismus
Imperialismus
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1837-1901.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1837-1901.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
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History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An anti-slavery nation. Division and diversity ; Abolitionists and anti-slavery
  • Uncle Tom's Britain. Geologies of emancipation ; A great, unseen, gigantic power
  • The anti-slavery state. Anti-slavers in disguise ; Britain's anti-slavery world system
  • Consensus, conflict, and partisanship
  • Britons' unreal freedom. Slavery and British society ; Wage slavery ; Sweetening the condition of England
  • Power, prosperity, and liberty. Cheap sugar means cheap slaves? ; Moral economies ; The benevolent crotchet ; Free labor and world power
  • Africa burning. Improvement and the slave trade ; Anti-slavery imperialism ; Decoy elephants ; Anti-slavery and the scramble for Africa ; Imperial motives
  • The anti-slavery empire. From Bombay to Morant Bay ; The road to hell ; Race, free labor, and seeing too far
  • Ideologies of freedom. Elite and popular anti-slaveries ; Anti-slavery as ideology ; Anti-slavery ends and means.

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