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Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) Hardcover – October 24, 2017
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British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade was abolished, anti-slavery activists in England profited, colonial officials in Freetown, Sierra Leone, relied on former slaves as soldiers and as cheap labor, and the British armed forces conscripted former slaves to fight in the West Indies and in West Africa.
At once scholarly and compelling, this history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone draws on a wealth of archival material. Scanlan’s social and material study offers insight into how the success of British anti-slavery policies were used to justify colonialism in Africa. He reframes a moment considered to be a watershed in British public morality as rather the beginning of morally ambiguous, violent, and exploitative colonial history.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication dateOctober 24, 2017
- Dimensions6.13 x 1.06 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100300217447
- ISBN-13978-0300217445
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- Publisher : Yale University Press (October 24, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0300217447
- ISBN-13 : 978-0300217445
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.13 x 1.06 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,017,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #775 in West African History
- #1,090 in Slavery & Emancipation History
- #9,806 in Discrimination & Racism
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