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 revea...

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Other Authors: Burroughs, Robert M. 1980- (Editor), Huzzey, Richard 1982- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2015
Series:Studies in imperialism
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Summary: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 and empire. Three sections reveal the policies, experiences and representations of slave-trade suppression from the perspectives of metropolitan Britons, liberated Africans, black sailors, colonialists, and naval officers
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 216 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781784992361
DOI:10.7765/9781784992361

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