A Civilised Savagery

Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-94901-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities.

A Civilized Savagery illuminates the multifaceted nature of British humanitarianism by juxtaposing campaigns against different forms of imperial labor exploitation in three separate areas: the Congo Free State, South Africa, and Portuguese West Africa. In doing so, Kevin Grant points out how this new type of humanitarianism influenced the transition from Empire to international government and the advent of universal human rights in subsequent decades.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grant, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Humanity and Slavery in All Their Forms; Chapter 2 Bodies and Souls: Evangelicalism and Human Rights in the Congo Reform Campaign, 1884–1913; Chapter 3 “Chinese Slavery” in South Africa and Great Britain, 1902–1910; Chapter 4 Calculating Virtue: Cadbury Brothers and Slavery in Portuguese West Africa, 1901–1913; Chapter 5 British Anti-slavery and the Imperial Origins of International Government and Labor Law, 1914–1926; Epilogue;

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Grant is an Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College