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Author:

Heartfield, James, author.

Title:

The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1838-1956 : a history / James Heartfield.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 486 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society--History.
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.
Slaves--History.--Great Britain--History.
Abolitionists--Great Britain--History.
Human rights movements--Great Britain--History.
Slavery--Great Britain--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-478) and index.

Contents:

Preface -- List of illustrations. Introduction. Part 1 The Americas : Abolition in Britain -- The struggle against apprenticeship and the origins of the BFASS -- Schisms -- Slave trade diplomacy -- The West Indies -- The United States -- Cuba and Brazil. Part 2 Africa and the Middle East : Africa before the "scramble" -- The Anti-Slavery Society turns to East Africa -- Zanzibar -- Egypt and the Sudan -- The scramble for Africa. Part 3 The colonial labour question : Indentured labour -- The Anti-Slavery Society into the twentieth century -- The Congo -- South Africa -- Land and labour in the colonies -- Anti-slavery in the era of World Wars. Conclusion. Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

This first comprehensive history of the Anti-Slavery Society draws on 120 years of anti-slavery publications, like the "Anti-Slavery Reporter," to explain its unique status as the first international human rights organization; and explains the Society's surprising attitudes to the Confederate secession, the "coolies," and the colonization of Africa.

ISBN:

0190491671
9780190491673

OCLC:

(OCoLC)969542198

LCCN:

2016498149

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)