Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843

Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843
Author: Andrea Major
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1846317584

In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when the East India Company's expansion in India, British abolitionism, and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied, or excused? By exploring Britain's ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India and the official, evangelical, and popular discourses that surrounded them, she seeks to uncover the various political, economic, and ideological agendas that allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its transatlantic counterpart.

British Comment on the United States

British Comment on the United States
Author: Ada B. Nisbet
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2001-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520098110

This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.

Blacks in Canada

Blacks in Canada
Author: Robin W. Winks
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 578
Release: 1997
Genre: Black people
ISBN: 077351631X

**** A sweeping historical survey covering all aspects of the Black experience in Canada, from 1628 through the 1960s. Investigates the French and English periods of slavery, the abolitionist movement in Canada, and the role played by Canadians in the broader antislavery crusade, as well as Canadian adaptations to 19th- and 20th-century racial mores. First published in 1971 by Yale University Press. This second edition includes a new introduction outlining changes that have occurred since the book's first appearance and discussing the state of African-Canadian studies today. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Politics of Slave Trade Suppression in Britain and France, 1814-48

The Politics of Slave Trade Suppression in Britain and France, 1814-48
Author: P. Kielstra
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2000-07-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230288413

Britain's rarely-examined, nineteenth-century diplomatic efforts for abolition took contemporary pre-eminence over most questions and almost sparked war with France in 1845. Kielstra examines the issue in Anglo-French relations: how conflicting moral, economic, and nationalist pressures and lobby groups affected domestic politics and high diplomacy. To preserve peace and their positions, statesmen had little margin for error as they framed policies which attacked the trade and satisfied mutually incompatible domestic opinions, in a struggle which holds lessons for current efforts to include human rights concerns in foreign policy.