Pathways From Slavery - British and Colonial Mobilizations in Global Perspective

Seymour Drescher's regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself. He has discussed the impact of economic and cultural factors on human behaviour and has shown that historical evidence does not lead to easy answers. He has changed the way in which we now look at abolitionism and has destroyed the linear explanation of economic decline. This books gathers together some of Drescher's key essays in the field.

List of contents

1. White Atlantic? The choice for African Slave Labor in the Plantation Americas 2. The Shocking Birth of British Abolitionism 3. Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade 4. Cart Whip and Billy Roller: Antislavery and Reform Symbolism in Industrializing Britain 5. Women’s Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons 6. Civilizing Insurgency: Two Variants of Slave Revolts 7. Liberty, Equality Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France 8. Emperors of the World: British Abolitionism and Imperialism 9. History’s Engines: British Mobilization in the Age of Revolution 10. Civil Society and Paths to Abolition 11. Abolition and Civil Society: East and West 12. Britain, India and Bondage, Part One: Birth of the "Slow Death of Slavery" 13. Britain, India and Bondage, Part Two: Indentured Emigration

About the author

Seymour Drescher is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Summary

Seymour Drescher’s regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself.

Product details

• Authors: Seymour Drescher, Seymour (University of Pittsburgh Drescher, Seymour escher
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780367349431
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34943-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Caribbean islands, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, General and world history, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery