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Document Type: | Book |
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Jenny S Martinez |
ISBN: | 0199368996 9780199368990 9780195391626 0195391624 |
OCLC Number: | 863032879 |
Notes: | "First issued as an Oxford University paperback, 2014"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction, p.3 -- 2. Britain and the Slave Trade: The Rise of Abolitionism, p.16 -- 3. The United States and the Slave Trade: An Ambivalent Foe, p.38 -- 4. The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, p.67 -- 5. Am i Not a Man and a Brother?, p.99 -- 6. Hostis Humani Generis: Enemies of Mankind, p.114 -- 7. From Crisis to Success: The Final Abolition of the Slave Trade, p.140 - 8. A Bridge to the Future: Links to Contemporary International Human Rights Law, p.148 - 9. International Human Rights Lawand International Courts: Rethinking Their Origins and Future, p.158 |
Responsibility: | Jenny S. Martinez. |
Abstract:
Jenny Martinez shows in this groundbreaking volume that the international human rights movement has its roots in one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships.
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Martinez (Stanford Law School) has written a highly readable work that breaks new ground on human rights and international law. * D. P. Forsythe, CHOICE *
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