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Humanitarian Imperialism - The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880-1940 (Hardcover)
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Humanitarian Imperialism - The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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Between the late 1880s and the onset of the Second World War,
anti-slavery activism experienced a revival in Europe. Anti-slavery
organizations in Britain, Italy, France, and Switzerland forged an
informal international network to fight the continued existence of
slavery and slave trading in Africa. Humanitarian Imperialism
explores the scope and outreach of these antislavery groups along
with their organisational efforts and campaigning strategies. The
account focuses on the interwar years, when slavery in Africa
became a focal point of humanitarian and imperial interest, linking
Catholic and Protestant philanthropists, missionaries of different
faiths, colonial officials, diplomats, and political leaders in
Africa and Europe. At the centre of the narrative is the campaign
against slavery in Ethiopia, an issue which served as a catalyst
for the articulation of international humanitarian standards within
the League of Nations in Geneva. By looking at the interplay
between British and Italian advocates of abolition, Humanitarian
Imperialism shows how in the 1930s anti-slavery campaigning evolved
in close association with Fascist imperialism. Thus, during the
Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935, the anti-slavery argument became a
propaganda tool to placate public opinion in Britain and elsewhere.
Because of its global echoes, however, the conflict also generated
worldwide protest that undermined the beliefs and certainties of
anti-slavery campaigners, resulting in a crisis of humanitarian
imperialism. By following the story of anti-slavery activism into
the post-1945 period, this volume illuminates the continuities and
discontinuities in the international history of humanitarian
organizations as well as the history of imperial humanitarianism.
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