A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926

by Kevin Grant

Book Overview

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 and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415949017
• ISBN13: 9780415949019
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"