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A Civilised Savagery : Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

Online-Ressource (236 p)

Englisch

Cover; A Civilised Savagery; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Humanity and Slavery in All Their Forms; Chapter 2 Bodies and Souls: Evangelicalism and Human Rights in the Congo Reform Campaign, 1884-1913; Chapter 3 ""Chinese Slavery"" in South Africa and Great Britain, 1902-1910; Chapter 4 Calculating Virtue: Cadbury Brothers and Slavery in Portuguese West Africa, 1901-1913; Chapter 5 British Anti-slavery and the Imperial Origins of International Government and Labor Law, 1914-1926; Epilogue; Appendix to Chapter 4; Notes

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Print version: A Civilised Savagery : Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926

978-0-415-94900-2

978-0-415-94900-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 870227140     

978-1-135-40864-0 ( : 166.81 (NL))

DT1321 .G73 2014

306.3/62/096709034     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Slavery - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 20th century ; Electronic books

In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities. A Civilized Savagery illuminates the multifaceted nature of British humanitarianism by juxtaposing campaigns against different forms of imperi