The anti-slavery project : from the slave trade to human trafficking / Joel Quirk.
The anti-slavery project : from the slave trade to human trafficking / Joel Quirk.
The anti-slavery project : from the slave trade to human trafficking / Joel Quirk.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
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N306.362/30
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English
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viii, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. The British empire and the legal abolition of slavery: A short history of British anti-slavery ; British anti-slavery and European international society ; British anti-slavery and European colonialism -- pt. 2. Linking the historical and contemporary: The limits of legal abolition ; Defining...
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2011.
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"It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were introduced, governments found ways of continuing...
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The anti-slavery project : from the slave trade to human trafficking / Joel Quirk.
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Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-323) and index.
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c2011.
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N306.362/30
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74Vv6PZdXadg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv6PZdXadg
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0812243331 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812243338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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306.362
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991006749329702626
