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Abolitions as a Global Experience (Paperback)
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Abolitions as a Global Experience (Paperback)
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The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was
an important global experience of the nineteenth century.
Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy
were these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish
them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally
shared experience appeared and developed. Chapters cover a variety
of different settings, from West Africa to East Asia, the Indian
Ocean and the Caribbean, with close consideration of the British,
French and Dutch colonial contexts, as well as internal
developments in Russia and Japan. What elements of the abolition
decision were due to international pressure, and which to local
factors? Furthermore, this collection does not solely focus on the
moment of formal abolition, but looks hard at the aftermath of
abolition, and also at the ways abolition was commemorated and
remembered in later years. This book complicates the conventional
story that global abilition was essentially a British moralizing
effort, "among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised
in the history of nations". Using comparison and connection, this
book tells a story of dynamic encounters between local and global
contexts, of which the local efforts of British abolition campaigns
were a part. Looking at abolitions as a globally shared experience
provides an important perspective, not only to the field of slavery
and abolition studies, but also the field of global or world
history.
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