Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans

In March 1807, within a few weeks of each other, both the United States and the United Kingdom passed laws banning the international slave trade. Two hundred years later, Great Britain, an instigator of the slave trade and the chief source of slaves sold into continental North America, was awash nationwide in commemorations of the ban. By contrast the bicentennial of the ban received almost no attention in the United States. Ambiguous Anniversary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611170966
• ISBN13: 9781611170962
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"