A civilised savagery : Britain and the new slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 / Kevin Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Kevin, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th century.

Colonies.

History.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--History--20th century.

Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

xii, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Civilized savagery

Britain and the new slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities. A "Civilized Savagery" illuminates the multifaceted nature of British humanitarianism by juxtaposing campaigns against different forms of imperial labor exploitation in three separate areas: the Congo Free State, South Africa, and Portuguese West Africa. In doing so, Kevin Grant points out how this new type of humanitarianism influenced the transition from Empire to international government and the advent of universal human rights in subsequent decades.

Contents:

Humanity and slavery in all their forms

Bodies and souls : evangelicalism and human rights in the Congo reform campaign, 1884-1913

"Chinese slavery" in South Africa and Great Britain, 1902-1910

Calculating virtue : Cadbury Brothers and slavery in Portuguese West Africa, 1901-1910

British anti-slavery and the imperial origins of international government and labor law, 1914-1926

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.

ISBN:

0415949009

0415949017

OCLC:

55220178