The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion
Burroughs Roberts and Huzzey Richard
Abstract
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 than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies, and the history of medicine to analyse nav ... More
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 than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies, and the history of medicine to analyse naval suppression in light of recent work on slavery and empire. Three sections reveal the policies, experiences and representations of slave-trade suppression from the perspectives of metropolitan Britons, liberated Africans, black sailors, colonialists, and naval officers. Throughout the chapters, authors use sources including travel writing, medical logs, officers’ diaries, cartoons, and colonial records revealing the lives of Africans ‘liberated’ from slave ships.
Keywords:
Slavery,
Slave Trade,
Britain,
Empire,
Atlantic,
African,
Caribbean,
Navy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780719085116 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2016 |
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719085116.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Burroughs Roberts, editor
Leeds Beckett University
Huzzey Richard, editor
University of Liverpool
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