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

Oldfield, J. R.

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 University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139344272

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Dec 19, 2014
• 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• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed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
• Contract Date: Dec 19, 2014