The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade : British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion / edited by Robert Burroughs and Richard Huzzey.

Other author Burroughs, Robert M., 1980-
Other author Huzzey, Richard, 1982-
Format Book
PublicationManchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionviii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Antislavery movements--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Slave trade--Africa. --History. --19th century.
Slave trade--Great Britain. --History.

SeriesStudies in imperialism
Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) ^A231036
Contents Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore / Robert Burroughs -- The politics of slave-trade suppression / Richard Huzzey -- 'Tis enough that we give them liberty'?: liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave-trade suppression / Emma Christopher -- A "most miserable business": naval officers' experiences of slave-trade suppression / Mary Wills -- British and African health in the anti-slave-trade squadron / John Rankin -- Slave-trade-suppression and the culture of anti-slavery in nineteenth-century Britain / Robert Burroughs -- Slave-trade-suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth-century Britain / David Lambert -- History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave-trade-suppression / Richard Huzzey and John McAleer.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2015452740
ISBN9780719085116 (hbk.)
ISBN071908511X (hbk.)

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