Proscription by Degrees
The Abolition of the Slave Trade to the United States
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2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-59792-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-59792-0 (ISBN)
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.
In this book, Kenneth Morgan provides the most comprehensive account of the abolition of the slave trade to the United States since W. E. B. Du Bois's 1896 The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870. Utilising a wider range of resources and exploring the economic, social, moral and political considerations, Morgan creates a multi-layered account that explains why abolition was a protracted affair that proceeded by degrees over nearly half a century. He appraises the role of abolitionist individuals, groups and societies in bringing abolition to the forefront of public discussion across North America, and the decisive role of the US Constitution and the Constitutional Convention that eventually led to proscription in 1808, which made abolition constitutionally possible.
In this book, Kenneth Morgan provides the most comprehensive account of the abolition of the slave trade to the United States since W. E. B. Du Bois's 1896 The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870. Utilising a wider range of resources and exploring the economic, social, moral and political considerations, Morgan creates a multi-layered account that explains why abolition was a protracted affair that proceeded by degrees over nearly half a century. He appraises the role of abolitionist individuals, groups and societies in bringing abolition to the forefront of public discussion across North America, and the decisive role of the US Constitution and the Constitutional Convention that eventually led to proscription in 1808, which made abolition constitutionally possible.
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).
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 483 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-59792-2 / 1009597922 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-59792-0 / 9781009597920 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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