Rites of August First : Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world /
"Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, "Au...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
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