Slavery, diplomacy and empire : Britain and the suppression of the slave trade, 1807-1975 / edited by Keith Hamilton and Patrick Salmon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamilton, Keith, 1942-

Salmon, Patrick, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Great Britain--History.

Slave trade.

Slavery.

History.

Great Britain.

Slavery--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

xii, 229 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2009.

Contents:

Zealots and Helots : the slave trade department of the nineteenth-century Foreign Office / Keith Hamilton

Judicial diplomacy : British officials and the mixed commission courts / Farida Shaikh

Slavery, free trade and naval strategy, 1840-1860 / Andrew Lambert

Anti-slavery activists and officials : "influence", lobbying and the slave trade, 1807-1850 / / David Turley

"A course of unceasing remonstrance" : British diplomacy and the suppression of the slave trade in the East / T.G. Otte

The British "official mind" and nineteenth-century Islamic debates over the abolition of slavery / William Gervase Clarence-Smith

The "taint of slavery" : the Colonial Office and the regulation of free labour / Mandy Banton

The Foreign Office and slavery and forced labour in Portuguese West Africa, 1894-1914 / Glyn Stone

The anti-slavery game : Britain and the suppression of slavery in Africa and Arabia, 1890-1975 / Suzanne Miers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845192983

1845192982

OCLC:

213844289