Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic.

Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Abolitionism and Political Thought in Britain and East Africa -- Chapter One: African Poltical Ethics and the Slave Trade -- Chapter Two: 1807 and All That: Why Britain Outlawed Her Slave Trade -- Chapter Three: Empire withou America: British Plans for Africa in the Era of the American Revolution -- Chapter Four: Ending the Slave Trade: A Caribbean and Atlantic Context -- Chapter Five: Emperors of the World: British Abolitionism and Imperialism -- Chapter Six: Abolition and Imperialism: International Law and the British Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- Chapter Seven: Racial Violence, Universal History, and Echoes of Abolition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived.

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