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Freedom burning : anti-slavery and empire in Victorian Britain / Richard Huzzey.
LIBRA HT1163 .H89 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huzzey, Richard, 1982-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Abolitionists--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Abolitionists.
- Slave trade--Great Britain--Public opinion--History--19th century.
- Slave trade.
- Imperialism--Public opinion--History--19th century.
- Imperialism.
- Public opinion--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Public opinion.
- Politics and culture.
- History.
- Imperialism--Public opinion.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 303 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Huzzey (history, University of Liverpool) looks at Britain's crusade to suppress the slave trade around the world after it abolished the slave trade in its own empire in 1834. The book investigates the philanthropic, imperial, and economic motivations behind the abolitionist campaigns of William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, exploring the impact of anti-slavery policies favoring imperial expansion and questioning why anti-slavery ideologies failed to halt hardening attitudes toward Africans. B&w historical illustrations are included. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 1 An Anti-Slavery Nation 5
- Division and Diversity 9
- Abolitionists and Anti-Slavery 16
- 2 Uncle Tom's Britain 21
- Geologies of Emancipation 24
- A Great, Unseen, Gigantic Power 30
- 3 The Anti-Slavery State 40
- Anti-Slavers in Disguise 42
- Britain's Anti-Slavery World System 51
- Consensus, Conflict, and Partisanship 65
- 4 Britons' Unreal Freedom 75
- Slavery and British Society 77
- Wage Slavery 84
- Sweetening the Condition of England 93
- 5 Power, Prosperity, and Liberty 98
- Cheap Sugar Means Cheap Slaves? 99
- Moral Economies 106
- The Benevolent Crotchet 113
- Free Labor and World Power 124
- 6 Africa Burning 132
- Improvement and the Slave Trade 134
- Anti-Slavery Imperialism 141
- Decoy Elephants 147
- Anti-Slavery and the Scramble for Africa 160
- Imperial Motives 174
- 7 The Anti-Slavery Empire 177
- From Bombay to Morant Bay 178
- The Road to Hell 186
- Race, Free Labor, and Seeing Too Far 198
- 8 Ideologies of Freedom 203
- Elite and Popular Anti-Slaveries 204
- Anti-Slavery as Ideology 206
- Anti-Slavery Ends and Means 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801451089
- 0801451086
- OCLC:
- 778245018
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