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Title: The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Condition: New
EAN: 9780719085116
ISBN: 9780719085116
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 01/07/2015
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Contributor: Richard Huzzey (Edited by), Robert M. Burroughs (Edited by)
Language: English
Subtitle: British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion
ISBN-10: 071908511X
Description: 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Book Series: Studies in Imperialism
Item Width: 16mm
Author: Richard Huzzey
Release Year: 2015

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