Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Robert Burroughs

Yayın yılı:

2017

Yayıncı:

Manchester University Press

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on critical aspects of the British Royal Navy's suppression of the Atlantic slave trade. It presents a new interpretation of the political framework under which slave-trade suppression was executed. The book provides the sustained discussion of the squadron's wider, cultural significance, and its role in the shaping of geographical knowledge of West Africa. It considers the responses of officers serving on the squadron and explores how far faith, profits and honour shaped their responses to the assignment. The book also considers how the nineteenth-century suppression of the slave trade has survived in British public memory, tracing early commemorations through to the museums and political debates of our own times.

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