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Distant Ripples of the British Abolitionist Wave

Africa, Asia and the Americas

ISBN-13: 9781569025512

Contributor(s): Myriam Cottias (edited by), Maria-Jeanne Rossignol (edited by)

Subject: History

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 18-01-2018

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£39.95

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About the book

This collection of essays probes British efforts to abolish the slave trade internationally in the 19th century and how they impacted local discourses and practices relating to slavery and abolition in other continents and countries (Africa, the Americas, Asia). Coming in the wake of the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1807, it insists on the ambiguous imperial ambitions of Britain, as well as on local initiatives to abolish slavery which did not simply draw their inspiration from Britain and the humanitarian rhetoric of the abolitionists.