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Book SynopsisThe suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century campaign. -- .
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore – Robert Burroughs
2 The politics of slave-trade suppression – Richard Huzzey
3 ‘Tis enough that we give them liberty’? Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave-trade suppression – Emma Christopher
4 A ‘most miserable business’: naval officers’ experiences of slave-trade suppression – Mary Wills
5 British and African health in the anti-slave-trade squadron – John Rankin
6 Slave-trade suppression and the culture of anti-slavery in nineteenth-century Britain – Robert Burroughs
7 Slave-trade suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth-century Britain – David Lambert
8 History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave-trade suppression – Richard Huzzey and John McAleer
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