Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade - British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion

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.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore - Robert Burroughs
2 The politics of slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey
3 'Tis enough that we give them liberty'? Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave-trade suppression - Emma Christopher
4 A 'most miserable business': naval officers' experiences of slave-trade suppression - Mary Wills
5 British and African health in the anti-slave-trade squadron - John Rankin
6 Slave-trade suppression and the culture of anti-slavery in nineteenth-century Britain - Robert Burroughs
7 Slave-trade suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth-century Britain - David Lambert
8 History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey and John McAleer
Index

About the author

Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Beckett UniversityRichard Huzzey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Robert Huzzey Burroughs
• Assisted by: Robert Burroughs (Editor), Richard Huzzey (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781526122889
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2288-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, British Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Atlantic Ocean, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery