The slave trade and slavery itself - the subjugation of societies with long histories and strong institutions - have drawn criticism since the second half of the 18th century. Those challenges grew out of the egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution and radical religious currents in the Protestant world. Despite his deep roots and the great economic interests he sustained, slavery ended up being abolished in the colonies of Great Britain in 1833, in those of France in 1848 and in the United States in 1865, in what constituted a moral triumph for the humanitarians, decisive for the transformation of the great empires of European origin... With the rigor and thoroughness that have earned him the international authority that he enjoys as a historian, Josep M. Fradera proposes in Before Anti-Imperialism an illuminating genealogy of criticism that precedes anti-imperialism itself.
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