The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848

Blackburn, Robin. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0860911888
ISBN: 9780860911883
ISBN: 0860919013 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780860919018 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0860919218 (pbk)
ISBN: 9780860919216 (pbk)
ISBN: 1844674754 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781844674756 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
560 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 1988.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.