Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution: An International History of Anti-Slavery, C.1787-1820

by John Oldfield

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107594936
• ISBN13: 9781107594937
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"