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Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820

Oldfield, J. R.

Authors

J. R. Oldfield



Abstract

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 in approach, this book explores the dynamics of transatlantic abolitionism, along with its structure, mechanisms and business methods, and in doing so, highlights the delicate balance that existed between national and international interests in an age of massive political upheaval throughout the Atlantic world. By setting slave trade debates within a wider international context, Professor Oldfield reveals how popular abolitionism emerged as a political force in the 1780s, and how it adapted itself to the tumultuous events of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Citation

Oldfield, J. R. (2011). Transatlantic abolitionism in the age of revolution: an international history of anti-slavery, c.1787-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272

Book Type Book
Publication Date Jan 1, 2011
Deposit Date Dec 19, 2014
Journal Critical perspectives on empire
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Pages 1-282
Series Title Critical Perspectives on Empire
Book Title Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution: An International History of Anti-Slavery, c. 1787-1820
ISBN 9781107594937; 9781107030763
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272
Keywords REF 2014 submission
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/369889