Book contents
- Ruling the World
- Ruling the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1838: The Year of Freedom
- 1 Setting the Scene for Emancipation
- 2 Managing Expectations
- 3 Political Freedom
- 4 Settler Liberties
- 5 Free Trade, Famine and Invasion
- 6 Steam and Opium
- Conclusion to Part I: An Empire of Freedom?
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
1 - Setting the Scene for Emancipation
from Part I - 1838: The Year of Freedom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2020
Book contents
- Ruling the World
- Ruling the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1838: The Year of Freedom
- 1 Setting the Scene for Emancipation
- 2 Managing Expectations
- 3 Political Freedom
- 4 Settler Liberties
- 5 Free Trade, Famine and Invasion
- 6 Steam and Opium
- Conclusion to Part I: An Empire of Freedom?
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
Britain’s reliance on slavery; how emancipation affected imperial governance; how loss of labour was mitigated; apprenticeship; the Caribbean, Cape Colony, Ceylon, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, convicts in Van Diemen’s Land, slavery in India.
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- Ruling the WorldFreedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, pp. 35 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
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Anderson, C., ‘Transnational Histories of Penal Transportation: Punishment, Labour and Governance in the British Imperial World, 1788–1939’, Australian Historical Studies, 47, 2016, 381–97.Google Scholar
Brown, C. L., Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, University of North Carolina Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Dooling, W., Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa, University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Everill, B., Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Google Scholar
Major, A., ‘“The Slavery of East and West”: Abolitionists and “Unfree” Labour in India, 1820–1833’, Slavery and Abolition, 31, 2010, 501–25.Google Scholar
Rupprecht, A., ‘“When He Gets among His Countrymen, They Tell Him That He Is Free”: Slave Trade Abolition, Indentured Africans and a Royal Commission’, Slavery & Abolition, 33, 2012, 435–56.Google Scholar
Sivasundaram, S., Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony, University of Chicago Press, 2013.Google Scholar