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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Networks -- 2. Circuits of knowledge -- 3. Strategies -- 4. Rupture and fragmentation -- 5. Retrenchment -- 6. Abolition -- 7. The revival of internationalism -- 8. Colonisation debates -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochial British, European or American affair, and instead reframes the abolition movement as a broad international network of activists across a range of metropolitan centres and remote outposts. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the dynamics of transatlantic abolitionism, along with its structure, mechanisms and business methods, and in doing so, highlights the delicate balance that existed between national and international interests in an age of massive political upheaval throughout the Atlantic world. By setting slave trade debates within a wider international context, Professor Oldfield reveals how popular abolitionism emerged as a political force in the 1780s, and how it adapted itself to the tumultuous events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Antislavery movements -- History -- 18th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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Antislavery movements -- France -- History.
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France. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oldfield, J.R. (John R.). Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107030763 (DLC) 2013004683 (OCoLC)828333912 |
| ISBN |
9781461936794 (electronic book) |
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1461936799 (electronic book) |
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1107290228 (electronic book) |
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9781107290228 (electronic book) |
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9781139344272 (electronic book) |
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1139344277 (electronic book) |
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9781107291270 (electronic book) |
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1107291275 (electronic book) |
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9781107030763 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1107030765 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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