Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 375 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780300262902
Series Statement:
The David Brion Davis series
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Interpreting British Slave Trade Abolition -- PART ONE Trade -- ONE A "Diabolical Traffic" British Slave Trading, 1640-1807 -- TWO Managing the "Train of Uncertainty" Liverpool and the Bight of Biafra -- THREE The "Wheel of Unfathomable Commerce" Credit, Incentives, and Sustainability -- PART TWO Opinions -- FOUR "Vulgar Error" Questioning Transatlantic Slavery in the Age of Locke -- FIVE Contrary to "the Laws of God, and the Rights of Man" The Intellectual Roots of the British Anti- Slave Trade Movement -- SIX "Tumults of Imagination" Literature and British Anti- Slave Trade Sentiment -- SEVEN Reaching "the Common People" Newspapers, African Voices, and Politicizing the Slave Trade -- PART THREE Politics -- EIGHT "To Interest Men of E very Description in the Abolition of the Traffic" Mobilization and the "Take Off" of Abolitionism -- NINE Finding "a Pathway for the Humanities" The Politics of Slave Trade Abolition, 1791-1807 -- TEN On the "Heroism of Principle" Reflecting on the British Slave Trade and Its Abolition -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300250435
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780300250435
Language:
English
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