Abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia

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    • Everill, Bronwen

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Abolition and empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Bronwen Everill

(Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series / general editor, A.G. Hopkins)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-221) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: FOUNDATIONS Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks An African Middle Class Americans in Africa PART II: INTERACTIONS The Abolitionist Propaganda War Slave Trade Interventionism Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence Arguments for Colonial Expansion Epilogue: 1861 and Beyond Bibliography Index

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