Liberated Africans and the abolition of the slave trade, 1807-1896 / edited by Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Richard (Richard Peter), editor.

Lovejoy, Henry B., editor.

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Series:

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; 86.

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freed persons.

History.

Slavery--Law and legislation.

Slavery.

Africa.

Slavery--Africa--History--19th century.

Slavery--Law and legislation--History--19th century.

Freed persons--Africa--History--19th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 465 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781580469692

1580469698

OCLC:

1107443982