Humanitarian intervention and changing labor relations : the long-term consequences of the abolition of the slave trade / edited by Marcel van der Linden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The sixteen essays in this collection discuss the direct and indirect impact of the British Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807) on labor relations in the Americas, Africa and South East Asia.

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Maps, Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Appendix: An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 47o Georgii III, Session 1, CAP. XXXVI; Politics of Memory; Commemorating Abolition, 1807-2007; The ""Veil"" in Post-Slavery Society. New Challenges for Historians: The Case of Surinam, 1808-2008; Abolitions; Was Abolition of the American and British Slave Trade Significant in the Broader Atlantic Context?; The Limited Impact of 1808 in Brazil; Revolution and Emancipation: The Role of Abolitionism in Ending Slavery in the Americas

Abolition from Below: The 1808 Revolt in the Cape ColonySlavery after the Abolition of the Slave Trade: The United States and the British West Indies; The Abolition Act and the Development of Abolitionist Movements in 19th Century Europe; Consequences; "As Always, the Trouble is with the French."" Britain, France, the Netherlands and the Colonial Labor Market in the 19th Century; What Came after Emancipation? A Micro-Historical Comparison between Cuba and the United States; Land Policies in Jamaica, 1830-1940

Abolitionist Rhetorics, Colonial Conquest, and the Slow Death of Slavery in Germany's African EmpireMore Continuity than Change? New Forms of Unfree Labor in the Belgian Congo, 1908-1930; The Discourse on Free Labor and the Forced Cultivation System: The Contradictory Consequences of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Colonial Java, 1811-1870; Indenture, Grand Narratives and Fragmented Histories: The Dutch East Indies, c. 1880-1940; Perspectives

The Long-Term Trajectory of Anti-Slavery in International Politics: From the Expansion of the European International System to Unequal International DevelopmentBibliography; Index

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