The emergence of a sophisticated antislavery ideology and the rise
of organized opposition to slavery in the Atlantic World in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represented nothing less than
one of the great intellectual and social revolutions in the history
of the world. An institution which by the early eighteenth century
was near axiomatically accepted as necessary, useful, and
thoroughly in accord with Judaeo-Christian tenets and virtues and
which profoundly informed the lives of millions of people had by
the mid-nineteenth century come increasingly to be viewed as the
chief vector of evil and the Devil in the world, the very
quintessence of evil as some called it, and the chief repository of
all that was socially, politically, and especially economically
archaic and stagnant. This encyclopedia is organized around three
principal concerns: the illustration and explication of the various
forms of antislavery and its emergence as an organized movement;
the immediate precipitants of abolition and the processes of its
passage; and the enactment of emancipation and its consequences.
While the earliest expressions of antislavery may have only
comprised one or a few isolated voices, the antislavery most
commonly reviewed here is that animated by a systematic and ardent
opposition to slavery and intended to mobilize large numbers of
people to attack and end the institution. A wide variety of people
and organizations nurtured and extended this antislavery: religious
figures, political economists, slaves, sailors, artisans,
missionaries, planters, captains of slave ships, democratic
enthusiasts, and others were all involved along with the various
organizations-secular, religious, orotherwise-with which they were
associated. Antislavery was by no means exclusively or even
principally the work of an intellectual elite and the force of all,
from the lowly and unlearned to the privileged and prominent, is
represented. The presence of slavery continued to be attacked in
the contracting Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century, in
Liberia in the 1930s, in Saudi Arabia in the mid-twentieth century,
and even in the latter years of the century in countries like
Sudan, Pakistan, India, and others in Southeast Asia. The entries
have a worldwide focus, covering antislavery movements and
important developments in slavery abolition and slave emancipation
in many places around the globe, including the following: BLAfrica,
Emancipation BLBritish West Indies, Abolition of Slavery BLCentral
Asia and Abolition BLGreat Britain, Antislavery BLIndian
Subcontinent and Antislavery BLJapan and Antislavery BLLatin
America, Abolition of Slavery BLMexico and Antislavery BLNorth
America, Antislavery BLWestern Europe, Transition from Slavery to
Serfdom Other entries cover individuals, groups, events, documents,
and organizations related to the history of abolition and
emancipation over the last two centuries, including the following:
BLAllen, Richard BLBerlin Conference (1885) BLCanning, George
BLDominicans and Antislavery BLEquiano, Oloudah BLNew England
Antislavery Society BLPointe Coupee Revolt BLSonthonax, Leger
Felicite BLUniversal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
BLWilberforce, William Other entries address a wide range of
topics, issues, and ideas related to the broad topic of ending
historical systems of slavery and human bondage, including the
following: BLAncient Middle Eastand Antislavery BLAntislavery Songs
BLHelots BLJudaism and Antislavery BLLadies Antislavery Auxiliaries
BLMarxism and Antislavery BLRussia and Compensated Emancipation of
Serfs BLSeminole Wars, Indian Removal, and Antislavery BLSerfdom
and Slavery in Europe BLWorld War II, Re-Emergence of Slavery
During Besides over 400 cross-referenced entries, most of which
conclude with lists of additional readings, the encyclopedia also
includes an Introduction tracing the history of abolition and
emancipation, a selected general bibliography, a guide to related
topics, numerous illustrations, and a detailed subject index. List
of Contributors Acerbi, Patricia Ackerson, Wayne Aiyar, Chitra G.
Alexander, William H. Altink, Henrice Beilke, Jayne R. Belt-Beyan,
Phyllis Beyan, Amos Bilotta, James Blanck, Emily V. Blaque, Ellesia
Bronstein, Jamie Brown, William Budney, Stephen P. Burin, Eric
Butler, Noah Cahill, Barry Capet, Antoine Cappiello, Dianne W.
Carter, Johnathan L. Castro, Robert Chande, Abdin Chew, William L.
Cleaver, Kenneth G. Crothers, A. Glenn Daniels, Edward Darcy
O'Quinn, Mary Davis, Hugh Dixon, Chris Eaklor, Vicki Echeverri,
Marcela Egerton, Douglas Ellis, R.J. Emmer, Pieter Erben, Patrick
Faulkner, Carol Felsenstein, Frank Finkelman, Paul Fletcher, Susan
Foley, James Frank, Andrew Frank, Christopher Freamon, Bernard
Freight, Andrew French, John A. Fuller, A. James Fury, Cheryl
Gerard, Gene C. Gomez, Luis Greenspoon, David Hallette, Nicole
Harrold, Stanley Hassanali, Mohammed Haynes, Robert Heidenreich,
Don Helsley, Alexia Jones Hodges, Graham Hunt, Nadine Hunter, Iris
Inikori, Joseph E. Isham, Matthew Iwanisziw, Susan B. Jackson,
Maurice Jerryson, Michael Joly, Fabio Keen, Ralph Klein, Martin
Knowles, Helen J. Kotzin, Daniel Krohn, Raymond Kurtz, Jeffrey B.
Lee, Lori LeGlaunec, Jean-Pierre Leonhirth, James Lofkrantz,
Jennifer Lovelace, Leo Lovelace, Sonja Lumsden, Linda MacMaster,
Richard Marsh, Benjamin J. Mason, Matthew Masur, Kate Mathisen,
Erik Matthewson, Tim Mattingly, Gerald L. Mattingly, Leslie A.
McDaniel, William Caleb Michon, Heather Miers, Oliver, Suzanne
Miller, Neil Monaco, C.S. Moody, Wesley Moon, David Mosher, Shawn
Mudure, Michaela Mulligan, William Mullins, Jeffrey Murphy, Brian
Murray, David Napier, Steven Nash, C.L. Nelson Robert Newman,
Richard Orihel, Michelle Pattison, Shelinda Peatman, Jared Peebles,
Patrick Phelan, Claire Pierce, Jennifer Pierson, Michael Ramsarran,
Parbattie Rich, Jeremy Riser, R. Volney Rodabaugh, Cathy Rohrer,
James Roth, Sarah Rutz, Michael Ryeenga, Jennifer Saillant, John
Saunders, Christopher Schocket, Andrew Schwarz, Marc Scully, Pamela
Shabaka, Lumumba Shantz, Jeffrey Shepherd, Verne Shields, Juliet
Smith, John David Smith, Robert Stauffer, John Stewart, Paul
Teelucksingh, Jerome Thomasson, Gordon Vorenberg, Michael Walker,
Marilyn Walvin, James Welch, Kimberly Wellman, Judith West,
Susannah Whitehead, Fred Whitmore, Ashley Rose Whyte, Iain
Williams, Gloria-Yvonne Zaborney, John Zeisel, Kathy
General
Imprint: |
Greenwood Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2006 |
First published: |
November 2006 |
Editors: |
Peter Hinks
• John McKivigan
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 61mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
856 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-33142-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-313-33142-1 |
Barcode: |
9780313331428 |
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