The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law /

Publisher's description: There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth centu...

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Main Author: Martinez, Jenny S
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Britain and the slave trade : the rise of abolitionism
  • The United States and the slave trade : an ambivalent foe
  • The courts of mixed commission for the abolition of the slave trade
  • Am I not a man and a brother?
  • Hostis humani generis : enemies of mankind
  • From crisis to success : the final abolition of the slave trade
  • A bridge to the future : links to contemporary international human rights law
  • International human rights law and international courts : rethinking their origins and future