Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University of London)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive and multi-layered account of the abolition of the slave trade to the United States. It is intended for students and scholars interested in slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781009597944
• ISBN-10: 1009597949
• Artikelnr.: 73740830

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University of London. He is the author of Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2008) and A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: 1. Colonial restrictions on the slave trade, 1700-1774
2. The slave trade and revolutionary North America, 1774-1787
3. The US constitution, the debates over ratification, and the slave trade, 1787-1788
4. Opposition to the slave trade in the early national period, 1789-1802
5. Final controversies over the US slave trade, 1803-1807
Epilogue
Bibliography.