Slavery, diplomacy and empire
Subtitle: Britain and the suppression of the slave trade, 1807-1975
By: edited by Keith Hamilton and Patrick Salmon.
Contributors: Hamilton, Keith, 1942-; Salmon, Patrick, 1952-
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781845192983
Subjects: Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History; Slavery -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Zealots and Helots : the slave trade department of the nineteenth-century foreign office Keith Hamilton; title: Judicial diplomacy : british officials and the mixed commission courts Farida Shaikh; title: Slavery, free trade and naval strategy, 1840-1860 Andrew Lambert; title: Anti-slavery activists and officials : "influence", lobbying and the slave trade, 1807-1850 David Turley; title: "A course of unceasing remonstrance" : british diplomacy and the suppression of the slave trade in the East T.G. Otte; title: The british "official mind" and nineteenth-century Islamic debates over the abolition of slavery William Clarence Gervase-Smith; title: The "taint of slavery" : the colonial office and the regulation of free labour Mandy Banton; title: The foreign office and slavery and forced labour in Portuguese West Africa, 1894-1914 Glyn Stone; title: The anti-slavery game : Britain and the suppression of slavery in Africa and Arabia, 1890-1975 Suzanne Miers.