The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade: British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion

The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain's campaign to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071908511X
• ISBN13: 9780719085116
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"