Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic
By: edited by Derek R. Peterson.
Contributors: Peterson, Derek R., 1971-
Series: African studies from Cambridge
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821419014; 9780821419021
Subjects: Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History; Slave trade -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History; Slave trade -- Africa -- History; Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson; title: African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton; title: And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton; title: Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. Brown; title: Ending the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morgan; title: Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher; title: Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law; title: Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.