A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415949017
ISBN13:9780415949019
Release Date:January 2005
Publisher:Routledge
Length:236 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"
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