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Title:

Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / edited by Derek R. Peterson.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 235 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Slave trade--Great Britain--History.
Slave trade--America--History.--America--History.
Slave trade--Africa--History.
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.
Great Britain--History.--History.
Imperialism--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Other Authors:

Peterson, Derek R., 1971-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton -- Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. Brown -- Ending the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.

Series:

Cambridge Centre of African Studies series

ISBN:

0821419021 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821419021 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821419013 (alk. paper)
9780821419014 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)433549496

LCCN:

2009033389

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)