Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) ISBN:1580469698 Author:Anderson, Richard; Lovejoy, Henry B. Publisher:University of Rochester Press Release Date:2020 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:New Sku: 2345967 Notes: First edition. An exceptional copy. 2020 Hard Cover. xiv, 465 pp. Tables, figures, and maps throughout. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index follow text. Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century. In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons, and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a network of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice not only resulted in the "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand people but also generated an extensive archive of documents. Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 makes use of theserecords to illuminate the fates of former slaves, many of whom were released from bondage only to be conscripted into extended periods of indentured servitude. Essays in this collection explore a range of topics relatedto those often referred to as "Liberated Africans"-a designation that, the authors show, should be met with skepticism. Contributors share an emphasis on the human consequences for Africans of the abolitionist legislation. The collection is deeply comparative, looking at conditions in British colonies such as Sierra Leone, the Gambia, and the Cape Colony as well as slave-plantation economies such as Brazil, Cuba, and Mauritius. A groundbreaking intervention in the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, this volume will be welcomed by scholars, students, and all who care about the global legacy of slavery. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Slavery, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Africa / General, Human Rights, Europe / Spain & Portugal
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28.5 Oz
Author: Allen M. Howard
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
