British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution
by
Padraic X. Scanlan
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa
British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily...