1st Edition
A Civilised Savagery Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
By Kevin Grant
Copyright 2005
236 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Humanity and Slavery in All Their Forms; Chapter 2 Bodies and Souls: Evangelicalism and Human Rights in the Congo Reform Campaign, 1884–1913; Chapter 3 “Chinese Slavery” in South Africa and Great Britain, 1902–1910; Chapter 4 Calculating Virtue: Cadbury Brothers and Slavery in Portuguese West Africa, 1901–1913; Chapter 5 British Anti-slavery and the Imperial Origins of International Government and Labor Law, 1914–1926; Epilogue;
Biography
Kevin Grant is an Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College
