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Introduction / Myriam Cottias and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- Africa -- The abolition of slavery: between Islamic law and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society's influence in Tunisia / Ismael Musah Montana -- The influences and impacts of British abolitionist movements on anti-slavery in Tunisia from the 1840s to the end of the 1890s / Ines Mrad Dali -- British and French anti-slavery societies and the abolition of slavery in Morocco / Chouki El Hamel -- Diplomacy in the heart of Africa: British-Sokoto negotiations over the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade / Paul Lovejoy -- British abolitionism in Anglo-Portuguese relations: the case of the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde / Maria R. Turano -- Asia -- Under pressure and out of respect for human dignity: the 1910 Chinese abolition / Claude Chevaleyre -- The rhetoric of slave emancipation through visual representation in Assam (India)-Burma frontier areas / Debojyoti Das -- The Americas -- Cuba, Britain and the complexities of the antislavery movement in the 1830s: abolitionist Richard Madden and the slave Juan Francisco Manzano / Rahma Jerad -- Building the nation, selecting memories: Victor Meireles, the Christie Affair and Brazilian slavery in the 1860s / Beatriz G. Mamigonian -- Abolitionism -- On the meaning and purposes of abolitionist immediatism in the United States / Lucia Bergamasco -- The reception of the British abolitions of 1807 and 1833 in the American South: some hypotheses based on the example of Louisiana / Nathalie Dessens and Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec -- Meaning, memory, and the banning the slave trade in 1808 and 2008: a view from the United States / Martha S. Jones. |
