Lydon, Jane, 1965-
Anti-slavery and Australia : no slavery in a free land? / Jane Lydon. - 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations, map. - Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000 .
Introduction. 'An equal portion of liberty' -- No slavery in a free land? -- 'Poor creatures'. Antislavery and transportation, 1789-1807 -- In spite of all the Saints, 1807-1833 -- Abolition, systematic colonization, and the end of transportation, 1830-1840 -- Is not the New Hollander a man and a brother? Abolition and Genocide -- Anti-slavery in Australia after Emancipation, 1834-1900. 'We but enliven labour with the lash' -- Modern Slavery and Australia.
"Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the Settler Revolution. The anti-slavery campaign was deeply entwined with the administration of the empire and its diverse peoples, as well as the radical changes demanded by industrialization and rapid social change in Britain. Abolition posed problems to which colonial expansion provided the answer, intimately linking the end of slavery to systematic colonization and Indigenous dispossession. By defining slavery in the Caribbean as the opposite of freedom, a lasting impact of abolition was to relegate other forms of oppression to lesser status, or to deny them. Through the shared concerns of abolitionists, slave-owners, and colonizers, a plastic ideology of 'free labour' was embedded within post-emancipation imperialist geopolitics, justifying the proliferation of new forms of unfree labour and defining new racial categories. The celebration of abolition has overshadowed post-emancipation continuities and transformations of slavery that continue to shape the modern world"--
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Antislavery movements--History.--Australia
Slavery--History.--Australia
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Australia--Colonization--History.
HT1431 / .L93 2021
326/.80994
Anti-slavery and Australia : no slavery in a free land? / Jane Lydon. - 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations, map. - Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000 .
Introduction. 'An equal portion of liberty' -- No slavery in a free land? -- 'Poor creatures'. Antislavery and transportation, 1789-1807 -- In spite of all the Saints, 1807-1833 -- Abolition, systematic colonization, and the end of transportation, 1830-1840 -- Is not the New Hollander a man and a brother? Abolition and Genocide -- Anti-slavery in Australia after Emancipation, 1834-1900. 'We but enliven labour with the lash' -- Modern Slavery and Australia.
"Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the Settler Revolution. The anti-slavery campaign was deeply entwined with the administration of the empire and its diverse peoples, as well as the radical changes demanded by industrialization and rapid social change in Britain. Abolition posed problems to which colonial expansion provided the answer, intimately linking the end of slavery to systematic colonization and Indigenous dispossession. By defining slavery in the Caribbean as the opposite of freedom, a lasting impact of abolition was to relegate other forms of oppression to lesser status, or to deny them. Through the shared concerns of abolitionists, slave-owners, and colonizers, a plastic ideology of 'free labour' was embedded within post-emancipation imperialist geopolitics, justifying the proliferation of new forms of unfree labour and defining new racial categories. The celebration of abolition has overshadowed post-emancipation continuities and transformations of slavery that continue to shape the modern world"--
9780429445187 0429445180 9780429817335 0429817339 9780429817342 0429817347 9780429817328 0429817320
Antislavery movements--History.--Australia
Slavery--History.--Australia
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Australia--Colonization--History.
HT1431 / .L93 2021
326/.80994