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Abolitions as a Global Experience /

The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the nineteenth century. Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy were these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines t...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Suzuki, Hideaki (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Abolitions as a global experience : an introduction / Hideaki Suzuki
  • France's two emancipations in comparative context / Sue Peabody
  • What was remembered and what was forgotten in Britain in the bicentenary of the abolition of the Slave trade? / Kumie Inose
  • Dutch attitudes towards slavery and the tardy road to abolition : the case of Deshima / Isabel Tanaka-Van Daalen
  • The Persian Gulf and Britain : the suppression of the African slave trade / Behnaz A. Mirzai
  • The end of the Coolie trade in Southern China : focus on the Treaty Port of Amoy / Ei Murakami
  • Freedom across the water : British emancipation of slavery and maritime marronage in the Danish West Indies / Amitava Chowdhury
  • The Yūjo release act as emancipation of slaves in mid-19th-century Japan / Yuriko Yokoyama
  • The end of slavery in French West Africa / Martin A. Klein
  • The abolition of Serfdom in Russia / Alessandro Stanziani.