Abolitions as a global experience

Contents

Abolitions as a global experience : an introduction / Hideaki Suzuki -- France's two emancipations in comparative context / Sue Peabody -- What was remembered and what was forgotten in Britain in the bicentenary of the abolition of the Slave trade? / Kumie Inose -- Dutch attitudes towards slavery and the tardy road to abolition : the case of Deshima / Isabel Tanaka-Van Daalen -- The Persian Gulf and Britain : the suppression of the African slave trade / Behnaz A. Mirzai -- The End of the Coolie trade in Southern China : focus on the Treaty Port of Amoy / Ei Murakami -- Freedom across the water : British emancipation of slavery and maritime marronage in the Danish West Indies / Amitava Chowdhury -- The Yūjo release act as emancipation of slaves in mid-19th-century Japan / Yuriko Yokoyama -- The end of slavery in French West Africa / Martin A. Klein -- The abolition of Serfdom in Russia / Alessandro Stanziani.