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The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion, Robert Burroughs and Richard Huzzey

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The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade

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Robert Burroughs and Richard Huzzey

MUP - Manchester Studies in Imperialism

British policies, practices and representations of naval coercion

Introduction -- 1. Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore - Robert Burroughs -- 2. The politics of slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey -- 3. 'Tis enough that we give them liberty'? Liberated Africans at Sierra Leone in the early era of slave-trade suppression - Emma Christopher -- 4. A 'most miserable business': naval officers' experiences of slave-trade suppression - Mary Wills -- 5. British and African health in the anti-slave-trade squadron - John Rankin -- 6. Slave-trade suppression and the culture of anti-slavery in nineteenth-century Britain - Robert Burroughs -- 7. Slave-trade suppression and the image of West Africa in nineteenth-century Britain - David Lambert -- 8. History, memory, and commemoration of Atlantic slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey and John McAleer -- Bibliography -- Index