The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade
British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain's campaign to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies, and the history of medicine to analyse naval suppression in light of recent work on slavery…
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Weitere Autoren: Huzzey, Richard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78499-236-1
- EAN: 9781784992361
- Produktnummer: 34870475
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 13'715 KB
- Abbildungen: Illustrations, black & white-Tables
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