Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843

by Andrea Major

Book Overview

'There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery' (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833).
In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781381119
• ISBN13: 9781781381113
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 10.2"