Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans

ISBN-13: 9781611170962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str.

David T Gleeson

Opis

In March 1807, within a few weeks of each other, both the United States and the United Kingdom passed laws banning the international slave trade. Two hundred years later, Great Britain, an instigator of the slave trade and the chief source of slaves sold into continental North America, was awash nationwide in commemorations of the ban. By contrast the bicentennial of the ban received almost no attention in the United States. Ambiguous Anniversary aims to remedy that omission and to explain the discrepancy between the two commemorative responses. This volume examines the impact that closing the international slave trade in 1808 had on Southern American economics, politics, and society.