The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848
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- Author(s) Blackburn, Robin
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 560pp; illus
- Publisher Verso
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Reprinted. Scholarly work. Has chapters: 'Origins of anti-slavery'; 'Hanoverian Britain - slavery and empire'; 'Slavery and the American Revolution'; 'British abolitionism and the backlash of the 1790s'; 'The French Revolution and the Antilles, 1789-93'; 'Revolutionary emancipationism and the birth of Haiti'; 'Abolition and empire - the United States'; 'British slave trade abolition, 1803-14'; 'Spanish America - independence and emancipation'; 'Cuba and Brazil - the abolitionist impasse'; 'The struggle for British slave emancipation - 1823-38'; 'French restoration slavery and 1848'