Ameliorating Empire: Slavery and Protection in the British Colonies, 1783-1865

This dissertation examines the era of slavery amelioration while situating the significance of this project to reform slavery within the longer history of the British Empire. While scholars of British slavery have long debated the causes of both the abolition of the slave trade (1807) and the aboli...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spence, Caroline Quarrier
Other Authors: Jasanoff, Maya
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
Subjects:
Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard.inactive:11797
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070043