Slavery Hinterland. Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680 1850

Resumen del libro

Contributors explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. This book focuses on historical actors in territories not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked with it, raising the question of conscience, or
awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects.