Pathways from Slavery

British and Colonial Mobilizations in Global Perspective

Seymour Drescher

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351797863
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Seymour Drescher's regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself. He has discussed the impact of economic and cultural factors on human behaviour and has shown that historical evidence does not lead to easy answers. He has changed the way in which we now look at abolitionism and has destroyed the linear explanation of economic decline. This books gathers together some of Drescher's key essays in the field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 “White Atlantic? The Choice for African Slave Labor in the Plantation Americas,” from Slavery in the Development of the Americas, ed. by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 31–69
• 2 “The Shocking Birth of British Abolitionism,” from Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, vol. 33, no. 4 (2012), 571–593
• 3 “Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade,” from Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 143, no. 1 (1994), 136–166
• 4 “Cart Whip and Billy Roller: Antislavery and Reform Symbolism in Industrializing Britain,” from Journal of Social History, vol. 15, no. 1 (1981), 3–24
• 5 “Women’s Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons,” from Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation, ed. by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Stewart (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 98–120
• 6 “Civilizing Insurgency: Two Variants of Slave Revolts in the Age of Revolution,” from Who Abolished Slavery? Slave Revolts and Abolitionism: A Debate with João Pedro Marques, ed. by Seymour Drescher and Pieter C. Emmer (New York: Berghahn Books, 2010), 120–132
• 7 “Liberty, Equality Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France,” from The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, ed. by Philip Misevich and Kristin Mann (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), 171–195
• 8 “Emperors of the World: British Abolitionism and Imperialism,” from Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic, ed. by Derek R. Peterson (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), 129–149
• 9 “History’s Engines: British Mobilization in the Age of Revolution,” from The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, vol. 66, no. 4, (2009), 737–756
• 10 “Civil Society and Paths to Abolition,” from Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 1, no. 1 (2016), 44–71
• 11 “Abolition and Civil Society: East and West,” from Chattel Slavery: Re-emergence at Zones of Conflict – Middle East [in Arabic], ed. by Mansour Alnogaidan (Dubai: Al Mesbar Studies and Research Centre, 2017), 11–31
• 12 Britain, India and Bondage, Part One: Birth of the “Slow Death of Slavery”
• 13 Britain, India and Bondage, Part Two: Indentured Emigration
• Index