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Informationen zum Autor Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Beckett University Richard Huzzey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery Klappentext The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn 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 nineteenth-century campaign. Zusammenfassung The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn 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 nineteenth-century campaign. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 McAleerIndex
