Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade

British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion

AvRobert M. Burroughs,Richard Huzzey

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-01
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781784992361
Förlag:Manchester University Press
Serie:Studies in Imperialism

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Richard Huzzey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery

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Introduction1. Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore – Robert Burroughs 2. The politics of slave-trade suppression – Richard Huzzey3. ‘Tis enough that we give them liberty’? Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave-trade suppression – Emma Christopher4. A ‘most miserable business’: naval officers’ experiences of slave-trade suppression – Mary Wills5. British and African health in the anti-slave-trade squadron – John Rankin6. Slave-trade suppression and the culture of anti-slavery in nineteenth-century Britain – Robert Burroughs7. Slave-trade suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth-century Britain – David Lambert8. History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave-trade suppression – Richard Huzzey and John McAleerBibliographyIndex