Envoys Of Abolition

Author : Mary Wills
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789624908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envoys of abolition written by Mary Wills and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on substantial collections of previously unpublished papers, this book examines personal experiences of British naval officers employed in suppressing the transatlantic slave trade from West Africa in the nineteenth century. It illuminates cultural encounters, the complexities of British abolitionism, and extraordinary military service at sea and in African territories.

Author : John McAleer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137507659
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820 written by John McAleer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book foregrounds the role of the Royal Navy in creating the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. It outlines the closely entwined connections between the nurturing of naval supremacy, the politics of commercial protection, and the development of national and imperial identities – crucial factors in the consolidation and transformation of the British Atlantic empire. The collection brings together scholars working on aspects of the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic in order to gain a better understanding of the ways that the Navy protected, facilitated, and shaped the British-Atlantic empire in the era of war, revolution, counter-revolution, and upheaval between the beginning of the Seven Years War and the end of the conflict with Napoleonic France. Contributions question the limits – conceptually and geographically – of that Atlantic world, suggesting that, by considering the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic together, we can gain greater insights into Britain’s maritime history.

Author : A.E. Rooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128267
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Joke written by A.E. Rooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most feared ship in Britain's West Africa Squadron, His Majesty's brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria's England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation; only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five years, the ship's diverse crew and dedicated commanders would capture more ships and liberate more enslaved people than any other in the Squadron. Author A.E. Rooks chronicles the adventures on this ship and its crew in a narrative of the history of Britain's suppression efforts. As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to the Black Joke and those that sailed with it as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. In this history of the daring feats of a single ship, the abolition of the international slave trade is revealed as an inexplicably extended exercise involving tense negotiations between many national powers, both colonizers and formerly colonized, that would stretch on for decades longer than it should have"--

Author : Fabian Klose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009033840
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Cause of Humanity written by Fabian Klose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether, when and how the international community should react to violations of humanitarian norms and humanitarian crises first emerged as a key topic of controversy and debate. Fabian Klose investigates the emergence of legal debates on the protection of humanitarian norms by violent means, revealing how military intervention under the banner of humanitarianism became closely intertwined with imperial and colonial projects. Through case studies including the international fight against the slave trade, the military interventions under the banner of humanitarian aid for Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire, and the intervention of the United States in the Cuban War of Independence, he shows how the idea of humanitarian intervention established itself as a recognized instrument in international politics and international law.

Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521517222
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are All Free written by Jeremy D. Popkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events leading to the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793, and in France.

Author : Peter Grindal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857739387
Total Pages : 1307 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opposing the Slavers written by Peter Grindal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 1307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little known yet important part of the British, European and American history. Drawing on original sources to provide a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the naval operations against slavers of all nations - in particular Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil, he describes how illegal traders sought to evade treaty obligations, reveals the obduracy of the USA that prolonged the slave trade, and shows how, despite inadequate resources, the Royal navy's sixty-year campaign forced slavers to expend ever greater sums top conduct their business and confront the losses inflicted by capture and condemnation. A work that will transform our understanding of the Royal Navy's campaign against the Atlantic slave trade.

Author : David Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136283781
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abolition and Its Aftermath written by David Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. With the exception of Barbara Bush's contribution, all the papers and commentaries contained in this volume were presented at a conference at Thwaite Hall, University of Hull, 26-29 July 1983. The conference was organised to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and was attended by over eighty scholars from Britain, Western Europe, the USA and the Caribbean.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade written by Peter Williams and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Eltis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Dependence, servility, and coerced labor in time and space written by David Eltis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary China written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: