Routledge
A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926
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- Kevin Grant
- Routledge
- Paperback
- 9780415949019
- 8 X 5.4 X 0.54 inches
- 0.73 pounds
- History > Africa - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities.
A Civilized Savagery illuminates the multifaceted nature of British humanitarianism by juxtaposing campaigns against different forms of imperial labor exploitation in three separate areas: the Congo Free State, South Africa, and Portuguese West Africa. In doing so, Kevin Grant points out how this new type of humanitarianism influenced the transition from Empire to international government and the advent of universal human rights in subsequent decades.
Author Bio
Grant is a historian of modern Britain and Ireland, European imperialism, and international humanitarianism. He has authored Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890-1948 (2019), The Congo Free State and the New Imperialism (2016), A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 (2005), and he is the co-editor of Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire, and Transnationalism, c. 1880-1950 (2007).
Grant received the John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award at Hamilton in 2003. He completed his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Source: Hamilton
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