Padraic Scanlan’s Freedom’s Debtors makes an important intervention in the debate on the abolition of slavery by looking at what actually happened in Sierra Leone as it moved from company project to crown colony. Scanlan shows that anti-slavery advocates were not in practice equity advocates: slaves had to earn their freedom. In so doing he forces us to reconsider the manifold forms of bonded labour that characterised the Atlantic world and the imperatives of a globalizing market that demanded the continuing production of tropical staples by captive workforces, before and after slavery. Scanlan arguably blends abolition and emancipation in the opening phase of the British campaign to end the slave trade, but he shows, despite the humanitari...
Source : ABES [http://www.idref.fr/033702462/id] - theses.fr, 27/01/2022 Thèse de doctorat en Études...
The British Empire formally emancipated its slaves in the Caribbean on 1 August 1834, then in South ...
Reconstructs the business activities of the Scottish-born Liverpool merchant and plantation owner Jo...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its s...
The free establishment of Sierra Leone was a project developed by English abolitionists in order to ...
This essay reconsiders Freedom’s Debtors through the lens of the three Ferguson Prize panelists’ com...
In the spring of 1794, eight black men composed a letter in which they claimed to be living in a tow...
Bought by British activists of the abolitionist cause in the late 18th century to shelter Black surv...
While past British abolitionist endeavours in Sierra Leone were praised at Westminster during the de...
Among the first Americans who were to write declarations of rights stating liberty as a basic natura...
A leading scholar of humanitarian intervention, Brown (2002) refers to British internal politics to ...
The history of slavery in Britain and the British empire has placed the legislative milestones of an...
2007 marks the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, While it was a landmark ...
This article reconstructs and interprets the early history of the Liberated African villages of Sier...
Source : ABES [http://www.idref.fr/033702462/id] - theses.fr, 27/01/2022 Thèse de doctorat en Études...
The British Empire formally emancipated its slaves in the Caribbean on 1 August 1834, then in South ...
Reconstructs the business activities of the Scottish-born Liverpool merchant and plantation owner Jo...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its s...
The free establishment of Sierra Leone was a project developed by English abolitionists in order to ...
This essay reconsiders Freedom’s Debtors through the lens of the three Ferguson Prize panelists’ com...
In the spring of 1794, eight black men composed a letter in which they claimed to be living in a tow...
Bought by British activists of the abolitionist cause in the late 18th century to shelter Black surv...
While past British abolitionist endeavours in Sierra Leone were praised at Westminster during the de...
Among the first Americans who were to write declarations of rights stating liberty as a basic natura...
A leading scholar of humanitarian intervention, Brown (2002) refers to British internal politics to ...
The history of slavery in Britain and the British empire has placed the legislative milestones of an...
2007 marks the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, While it was a landmark ...
This article reconstructs and interprets the early history of the Liberated African villages of Sier...
Source : ABES [http://www.idref.fr/033702462/id] - theses.fr, 27/01/2022 Thèse de doctorat en Études...
The British Empire formally emancipated its slaves in the Caribbean on 1 August 1834, then in South ...
Reconstructs the business activities of the Scottish-born Liverpool merchant and plantation owner Jo...