The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848

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Main Author : Blackburn Robin (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848 / Robin Blackburn
Published : London, New York : Verso , cop.1988
Physical Description : 1 vol (560 p.)
Content : The origins of anti-slavery. Hanoverian Britain: slavery and empire. Slavery and the American Revolution. British abolitionism and the backlash of the 1790s. The French Revolution and the Antilles: 1789-93. Revolutionary emancipationism and the birth of Haiti. Abolition and empire: the United States. British slave trade abolition: 1803-14. Spanish America: independence and emancipation. Cuba and Brazil: the abolitionist impasse. The struggle for British slave emancipation: 1823-38. French restoration slavery and 1848
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Publication history : Autres tirages : 1990, 1996, 2011
Bibliography : Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres, Index
ISBN : 978-1-8446-7475-6