Anti-Slavery and Australia Lydon Jane University of Western Australia
Anti-Slavery and Australia Lydon Jane University of Western Australia Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. The anti-slavery…
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Anti-Slavery and Australia Lydon Jane University of Western Australia
Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. 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. 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.
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. Abolition posed problems to which colonial expansion provided the answer, intimately linking the end of slavery to systematic colonization and Indigenous dispossession. Through the shared concerns of
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