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The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law (Hardcover)
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The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law (Hardcover)
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There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human
rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious
and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law
only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth
century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era
seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez
shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights
law, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a
product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes:
the movement to ban the international slave trade. Originating in
England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved
remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century.
Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty
courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts,
which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and
Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers
between 1807 and 1871. Here then, buried in the dusty archives of
admiralty courts, ships' logs, and the British foreign office, are
the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international
courts targeting states and non-state transnational actors while
working on behalf the world's most persecuted peoples--captured
West Africans bound for the slave plantations of the Americas.
Fueled by a powerful thesis and novel evidence, Martinez's work
will reshape the fields of human rights history and international
human rights law.
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