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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 University
Richard Huzzey is Reader in History at Durham University
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. -- .
